Chapter Summaries

Light Palace dismissed the Blood Robe Sword God as a minor threat while Qian Yuan pressured Xu Yeli to have Xu Tongchen help Huang Tu in the Eastern Land Pride Battle. Meanwhile, Qi Yuan sent his Mad Daoist and Seven Desires Demon Lord alts to attack Light Palace strongholds, ending with heavenly lightning striking the Wei imperial palace.

• Qian Yuan told Xu Yeli to make Xu Tongchen support Huang Tu’s bid for a top-twenty ranking, promising the Seven Words Sect the Land of a Hundred Kingdoms in return.
• Jiang Lingsu asked Qi Yuan whether the Blood Robe Sword God was his alt, then gave him jade slips containing cultivation arts she had obtained from Ya Ya Jie.
• Qi Yuan decided that Mad Daoist and Seven Desires Demon Lord would attack Light Palace strongholds across the Land of a Hundred Kingdoms.
• Mad Daoist ambushed Wind Fury True Lord and True Lord Qiang Hong outside Cloud Sesame Mountain and killed them with his Kitchen Knife.
• Seven Desires Demon Lord attacked the Light Palace stronghold in the Wei imperial palace, raining buns that summoned heavenly lightning and killed its Divine Infant cultivators.

Qi Yuan killed Ji Ruxue and two Nascent Soul cultivators who tried to seize Little Bride’s Blood Crystal snacks, then learned that the Eastern Land Pride Battle had been moved up. He agreed to attend because it would take place near the Light Palace he planned to destroy.

• After recording the Light Palace’s destruction by heavenly lightning, Qi Yuan left the Wei Kingdom and told its cultivators to do good deeds.
• At the Blood Crystal Mine, Duan Qianrou told Qi Yuan that Ji Ruxue of the Demonic Desire Sect was demanding Blood Crystals, so Qi Yuan went to confront her.
• Ji Ruxue, Ji Mingqiu, and Ji Chu ambushed Qi Yuan, but he killed all three in moments.
• Qi Yuan made Liu Guan and Duan Qianrou swear to keep the fight secret, then returned to Seven Colors Peak with Little Bride.
• Withered Wood True Lord told Qi Yuan and Kang Fulu that the Eastern Land Pride Battle would begin in one or two months and be held near the Light Palace.
• Qi Yuan agreed to attend the battle along the way while preparing to destroy the Light Palace, and Withered Wood True Lord warned him to conceal his identity.

Qi Yuan and Kang Fulu traveled toward the Eastern Land Pride Battle while Light Palace reeled from attacks by God Flower Society members, including Qi Yuan’s Blood Robe Sword God identity. As Qi Yuan’s group neared Emerald Cloud Continent, Rogue Immortal Venerable’s senior brother planned to take him to meet Light Palace prodigy Huang Tu, risking a clash with Qi Yuan.

• Kang Fulu showed off his first-grade golden core to Xu Yiyi, while Qi Yuan privately reflected on his far more extraordinary golden core.
• Qian Yuan and Elder Black Rope blamed the God Flower Society for the deaths of nearly a hundred Light Palace Nascent Soul cultivators and suspended further missions to the Hundred Kingdoms.
• Qi Yuan chatted with Rogue Immortal Venerable and other God Flower Society members, then failed to find a new game in his Game Jade Slip.
• Qi Yuan, Kang Fulu, Jiang Ya, and an elderly Nascent Soul woman traveled by spirit boat toward Emerald Cloud Continent, and Jiang Ya explained how battles could affect the Void Realm.
• Qi Yuan offered to help Jiang Ya revise the Heartless Sutra, but she declined, and he spent the journey reading cultivation arts and posting as Blood Robe Sword God.
• Rogue Immortal Venerable’s senior brother insisted they visit Huang Tu of Light Palace, and Rogue Immortal Venerable feared Qi Yuan would be drawn into the meeting.

Qi Yuan arrived in City in the Clouds for the Eastern Land Pride Battle, where Huang Tu’s arrival stirred Xu Tongchen’s Sun True Fire. Qi Yuan used a leaked recording to frame the Light Palace as deserving heavenly punishment, then prepared to confront its Purple Mansion cultivators.

• Qi Yuan, Jiang Ya, and Kang Fulu arrived in City in the Clouds and saw Huang Tu pass overhead in a grand rabbit carriage; Xu Tongchen sensed Qi Yuan nearby and felt uneasy.
• Qi Yuan sold a recording of the Light Palace’s Nascent Soul cultivators being struck by heavenly lightning to a Soaring Sky Pavilion peddler, presenting it as proof of their evil deeds.
• Qi Yuan gave Kang Fulu a jade slip of the Fish Dragon Golden Core Dance, then received messages from Jiang Lingsu warning him about fake recordings and teased her in reply.
• Qi Yuan told Rogue Immortal Venerable he would attend Huang Tu’s banquet and announced plans to strike the Light Palace again.
• Qi Yuan posted a forum message claiming the Light Palace had incurred heaven’s wrath, then read the comments and realized viewers mistook the blurred image of a falling bun for breasts.
• Qi Yuan decided to keep his appointment and fight the Light Palace’s Purple Mansion cultivators, convinced that righteousness justified his attack.

Xu Tongchen visited Qi Yuan to ask about his Sun True Fire, but Qi Yuan left to confront the Light Palace at Bright King Palace. Qi Yuan slaughtered the five Purple Mansion cultivators guarding the palace and left its forces in ruins.

• At the Cloud Pavilion banquet, Zheng Fangxing and other prodigies mocked the Blood Robe Sword God and cold-shouldered Xu Tongchen while praising the Light Palace.
• Xu Tongchen visited Qi Yuan to ask why his Sun True Fire reacted strangely to him, but Qi Yuan said he was going to kill someone and vanished.
• Xu Yeli warned Qi Yuan that five Purple Mansions had gathered at Bright King Palace, but Qi Yuan invited him to play the suona during the fight and continued on alone.
• At Bright King Palace, Qi Yuan revealed his overwhelming Origin Divine Power, drove the five Purple Mansions into madness, and killed them with his sword.
• Qi Yuan destroyed Bright King Palace, killed its Divine Infant cultivators, and collected their Storage Bags.

Qi Yuan examined Qian Yuan’s Heaven Rank art, arranged to study Xu Tongchen’s Sun True Fire, and killed Mei Yang of the Light Palace before the palace could respond. He left the story still struggling to comprehend the fire and preparing to attend a prodigy banquet incognito.

• Qi Yuan found the Heaven Rank Seven Origins Dark God Art in Qian Yuan’s Storage Bag and set new standards for choosing his White Moonlights.
• Xu Tongchen showed Qi Yuan his Sun True Fire, and they agreed to meet daily so Qi Yuan could study it while protecting Xu Tongchen.
• The Light Palace’s Third Palace Master, Zi Ran, ordered its Purple Mansion cultivators to stay alert and told Huang Tu to focus on the Eastern Land Pride Battle.
• Qi Yuan went with Xu Yeli to Phoenix Arrival City, where his Origin Divine Power drove Mei Yang mad and Qi Yuan killed him.
• Qi Yuan failed to comprehend the Sun True Fire, posted about killing a Purple Mansion cultivator, and discussed concealing his identity at the upcoming prodigy banquet with Rogue Immortal Venerable.

Qi Yuan continued his campaign against Light Palace while jokingly rallying forum supporters and studying Xu Tongchen’s Sun True Fire. As the Fish Dragon Banquet approached, he learned that Gu Xiaoyao had achieved perfect Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment and began worrying about facing him in the Eastern Land Pride Battle.

• Qi Yuan’s Blood Robe Sword God account announced the deaths of five more Light Palace Purple Mansions, while Qi Yuan thanked his online supporters and reassured the frightened Little Li of Fox Cave.
• Xu Yeli warned Xu Tongchen to be ready to flee because Light Palace might target his Sun True Fire, then revealed that he was Blood Robe Sword God’s attendant.
• Qi Yuan studied Xu Tongchen’s Sun True Fire and said he expected to comprehend it fully within ten days to half a month.
• Xu Tongchen told Qi Yuan that Gu Xiaoyao was a perfect Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, and Qi Yuan wondered whether he could defeat him in the Pride Battle.
• Xu Tongchen said Huang Tu would host the Fish Dragon Banquet in two days, and Qi Yuan wondered whether Rogue Immortal Venerable would arrive.

The Light Palace ordered its Purple Mansions to stay at headquarters while its leaders negotiated with the God Flower Society over the Blood Robe Sword God. Qi Yuan met Rogue Immortal Venerable and Gao Ji'en at the Fish Dragon Banquet, where the arrival of Heaven Soul Fairy drew attention to the Sword God’s reputation.

• Third Palace Master Zi Ran ordered every Light Palace Purple Mansion to return to headquarters and wait while the First Palace Master negotiated with the God Flower Society.
• Jiang Ya invited Qi Yuan and Kang Fulu to the Fish Dragon Banquet, but Qi Yuan said he would meet his online friend there.
• Rogue Immortal Venerable cared for Gao Ji'en after a cultivator had drained his vital essence, and the pair encountered Luo Cha and Lei Chong on their way to the City in the Clouds.
• Qi Yuan met Rogue Immortal Venerable and Gao Ji'en, introduced himself as the Blood Robe Sword God, and accompanied them to Cloud Court for the banquet.
• Qi Yuan and Rogue Immortal Venerable sat in the outer hall, where Qi Yuan joked about killing the assembled prides to get his friend onto the Eastern Lands Pride Ranking.
• Heaven Soul Fairy, ranked eighth on the Eastern Lands Pride Ranking, arrived, and the gathered guests discussed her talent and compared her future potential to the Blood Robe Sword God.

At the Fish Dragon Banquet, Qi Yuan attended in his Blood Robe Sword God disguise and killed Zheng Fangxing after Zheng threatened him. When Huang Tu moved to attack, the master of Cloud Court arrived and identified Qi Yuan as the Blood Robe Sword God, leaving Qi Yuan to demand the familiar invitation: “the Dragon King invites Crooked Mouth.”

• Qi Yuan’s companions and the banquet guests discussed the Blood Robe Sword God, while Xu Tongchen and Cloud Court’s Nascent Soul cultivators began to suspect Qi Yuan was the crimson-robed killer.
• Gao Ji'en introduced Zheng Fangxing to Qi Yuan, and Zheng accused Qi Yuan of mocking him by wearing the Blood Robe Sword God’s clothes and demanded that he take them off.
• Qi Yuan killed Zheng Fangxing with a casual wave, then challenged Huang Tu and the other Heaven's Prides to avenge him.
• Qi Yuan poured Corpse Dissolving Water over Zheng Fangxing’s corpse and taunted Huang Tu, briefly disappearing before returning and asking whether Huang Tu would give up his ranking for the Rogue Immortal Venerable.
• The master of Cloud Court stopped Huang Tu and revealed that Qi Yuan was the Blood Robe Sword God.
• Qi Yuan smiled at the master of Cloud Court and told him to say, “the Dragon King invites Crooked Mouth.”

Qi Yuan killed Huang Tu, learned that the Eastern Lands’ Pride Battle would grant its top-ranked factions entry to Moon Gazing Continent, and discovered it was the world where he had achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment. After comprehending Sun True Fire, he reaffirmed his plan to destroy Light Palace and received a warning that a Yin Spirit Venerable might intervene.

• Qi Yuan killed Huang Tu despite the Cloud Court master’s plea, then learned Light Palace wanted to arrange a meeting with him and that a great calamity was approaching.
• The Cloud Court master explained that the Eastern Lands’ top twenty Pride Ranking factions would be allowed to enter Moon Gazing Continent, which Qi Yuan recognized as the world from his game.
• Light Palace’s First Palace Master decided to seek peace with Qi Yuan and take the Seven Words Sect’s slot for Xu Tongchen, who was expected to rank highly.
• Xu Tongchen helped Qi Yuan comprehend Sun True Fire, then left the cave abode after recognizing Qi Yuan as the Blood Robe Sword God.
• Qi Yuan told the God Flower Society group that he would soon destroy Light Palace, and Great Sun Flame Emperor warned him that a Yin Spirit Venerable might intervene and advised him to invoke Feng Jun’s name.

Qi Yuan rejected the Light Palace’s offer of reconciliation and vowed to destroy it, then killed a Yin Spirit’s envoy who tried to stop him. He arrived at the Light Palace headquarters with Xu Yeli, where more than fifty Purple Mansion cultivators and a thousand Nascent Soul cultivators prepared to fight.

• Qi Yuan refused the Eastern Lands President of the God Flower Society’s proposed peace talks and announced he would attack the Light Palace in seven days.
• Qi Yuan dismissed Kang Fulu and Jiang Ya’s doubts, then set out for the Light Palace with Xu Yeli.
• A woman in palace robes delivered Venerable Ye Qiong’s decree ordering Qi Yuan to end his feud with the Light Palace, but Qi Yuan killed her and invoked Feng Jun’s name.
• The Light Palace’s First Palace Master and the other gathered cultivators learned that Qi Yuan had killed the envoy and prepared to defend their headquarters.
• Qi Yuan arrived at the Light Palace, taunted Zi Ran, and ordered Xu Yeli to play the suona as he began the slaughter.

Qi Yuan unleashed his Star Golden Core and destroyed the Light Palace, including the Grand Palace Master, who had become a Yin Spirit through the Imperial Dragon Shocking Crown. He emerged from the virtual realm as the only survivor, mourned the vanished Light Palace cultivators, and left after declaring victory.

• The First Palace Master, Second Palace Master, Third Palace Master Zi Ran, and Light Palace cultivators summoned sacred light swords to fight Qi Yuan, but his blood swords contaminated their attacks and steadily weakened them.
• A golden-robed observer from the Dao Seeking Palace predicted that the Light Palace would win if it used its Yin Spirit artifact, while Qi Yuan continued clashing with the Light Palace and contaminated more cultivators.
• The First Palace Master put on the Imperial Dragon Shocking Crown and transformed into a godlike being, dragging Qi Yuan and the Light Palace cultivators into the virtual realm.
• The Grand Palace Master attacked Qi Yuan with a god's finger, but Qi Yuan revealed his Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment and Star Golden Core, whose Grand Sun projection consumed the Grand Palace Master and the Light Palace cultivators.
• Qi Yuan met Canary's phantom, gave her Sun True Fire, and then returned from the virtual realm as observers outside the Light Palace watched in disbelief.
• Qi Yuan mourned the dead Light Palace cultivators, delivered a speech about those who stood behind him, and departed after weeping at the grave for three hours.

After destroying Light Palace, Qi Yuan announced his victory on the God Flower Society forum and sought cultivation techniques to improve the Qi Yuan Sutra. He met Great Wisdom True Lord to ask how to advance to the Divine Infant realm, but learned that the True Lord’s Two Core Method could not help him.

• Qi Yuan posted that Blood Robe Sword God had destroyed Light Palace, then claimed he had borrowed countless Golden Cores to summon the sun and defeat it.
• Qi Yuan admitted killing Venerable Ye Qiong’s envoy and publicly threatened Venerable Ye Qiong if he came after him.
• Qi Yuan told the God Flower Four Emperors group that the plan to destroy Light Palace had succeeded, then asked them to find him cultivation techniques.
• Qi Yuan continued refining the Qi Yuan Sutra and asked Jiang Ya for guidance on the Divine Infant realm; she arranged for him to meet Great Wisdom True Lord.
• Great Wisdom True Lord explained that he had formed a False Core before his Golden Core, then shattered the False Core to form a Divine Infant while keeping the Golden Core.
• Qi Yuan admired the Two Core Method but concluded that he could not use it because he had already reached the Origin Core realm.

Qi Yuan learned Great Wisdom True Lord’s theory that Divine Infants might become Primordial Spirits, then sought a way to qualify for the Eastern Land Pride Battle despite being occupied with the Qi Yuan Sutra. He pressured Feng Lan to secure him a top-ten ranking without competing, and Feng Lan agreed to report the request to the three Yin Spirit Venerables.

• Qi Yuan rejected shattering the Golden Core of a pride and heard Great Wisdom True Lord explain his theory that Divine Infants formed the foundation of Primordial Spirits.
• Great Wisdom True Lord revealed that his Divine Infant was his dead Dao companion’s hair, while Qi Yuan wondered if his sacrificed friends might emerge from his own Divine Infant.
• Qi Yuan received cultivation arts from the God Flower Society and focused on revising the Qi Yuan Sutra as the Eastern Land Pride Battle approached.
• With two days left before the battle, Qi Yuan went to Feng Lan’s palace seeking a back door and encountered Wind Moon Fairy, whom he called Booger Fairy.
• Qi Yuan told Feng Lan he was too busy to compete and demanded to be ranked in the top ten; Feng Lan said he needed approval from the three Yin Spirit Venerables and promised to report the request.

Qi Yuan secured a top-twenty place in the Eastern Lands Pride Ranking and the right to enter Moon Gazing Continent, then accepted the Purple Mansion cultivators’ offer to lead Emerald Cloud Continent and protect them from the coming calamity. He tasked them with gathering cultivation arts and left them to carry out his orders, including dealing with Hong Lian.

• Venerable Ye Qiong agreed to let the Blood Robe Sword God enter Moon Gazing Continent, expecting the Moro Clan to detect and kill him there.
• Feng Lan told Qi Yuan that he had been granted a top-twenty place and entry to Moon Gazing Continent, and Qi Yuan chose the Purple Golden Gourd as his Pride reward.
• Qi Yuan entered seclusion to study cultivation techniques while Jiang Ya and Kang Fulu went to the Eastern Land Pride Battle, where the organizers announced that only nineteen slots remained in the top twenty.
• The Cloud Court Master and more than thirty Purple Mansion cultivators asked Qi Yuan to lead Emerald Cloud Continent and shelter them from the approaching great calamity.
• Qi Yuan agreed to lead them, ordered them to gather cultivation arts, and assigned Mei Shan and Xu Yeli to take Hong Lian and leave Great Shang and the Shinguang Sect to Withered Wood True Lord.

Qi Yuan collected cultivation techniques, learned that Yin Spirits could open dozens of divine apertures, and began strengthening his Golden Core Great Dao. He devoured thirteen planets with Sun True Fire and set his next target on a star, while Shinguang Sect prepared for conflict with the Red Sword Sect after Mu Kong’s death.

• Qi Yuan reviewed the spell formulas gathered by his subordinates and hoped they would help him advance his cultivation.
• Mu Kong demanded the Wood Essence Treasure Tome and Great Shang’s submission to the Red Sword Sect, then headed toward Seven Colors Peak.
• Jiang Lingsu reported that a blade of grass had killed Mu Kong, and Withered Wood True Lord ordered Shinguang Sect’s protective formation activated.
• The Cloud Court Lord warned Qi Yuan that Heaven and Earth Cave was investigating his identity, and an old Earth Turtle explained the stages and strength of Yin Spirits.
• Qi Yuan learned that remnants of his battle with the Light Palace suggested his Golden Core projection had fought at the Sky Trampling Second Step.
• Ning Tao used Sun True Fire to devour thirteen planets, while Qi Yuan resolved to devour a star next.

The Eastern Lands’ Yin Spirits worried about the Moro Clan’s strength as Moon Gazing Continent opened, while the Blood Robe Alliance returned the Purple Golden Gourd and captured Purple Mansion cultivator Hong Lian to the Shinguang Sect. After half a month of preparation, Qi Yuan disguised himself as an overprotected Core Formation Cultivator and joined the heaven’s prides entering Moon Gazing Continent, where he antagonized Ling Jiao.

• The Eastern Lands’ Yin Spirits discussed the Moro Clan’s power and speculated about the Blood Robe Sword God as they prepared for the opening of Moon Gazing Continent.
• Mei Shan and Xu Yeli delivered the Purple Golden Gourd and bound Hong Lian to the Shinguang Sect, where Withered Wood True Lord beheaded him during a public assembly.
• A brown-robed Purple Mansion cultivator arrived to rescue Hong Lian, but he sensed a late-stage Purple Mansion presence and tried to leave.
• Qi Yuan learned that Moon Gazing Continent had opened and disguised himself in layers of protective clothing as a Core Formation Cultivator before setting out.
• Qi Yuan joined the nineteen other ranked heaven’s prides at the entrance to Moon Gazing Continent and offered them buns and soy milk.
• Ling Jiao rejected Qi Yuan’s food and accused him of hiding his identity, while Qi Yuan teased her into silence.

Qi Yuan entered Moon Gazing Continent and recognized it as his home, where he was gradually reclaiming control as its Heavenly Dao. After the Seven Kingdoms Representatives negotiated humiliating alliance agreements with the Eastern Lands’ geniuses, Qi Yuan persuaded them to void the deals and prepared to drive the intruders from his home.

• Feng Lan Great Power explained that the Eastern Lands’ geniuses would ally with Moon Gazing Continent’s natives against the Moro Clan, then sent them through a doorway to the continent.
• Qi Yuan revived withered grass upon arrival and privately realized Moon Gazing Continent was his home, where he needed twenty-one days to regain full control.
• Fallen Wood True Lord introduced the geniuses to representatives of seven kingdoms seeking allies, and Ling Jiao demanded extensive territory while belittling the kingdoms.
• Qi Yuan asked Luo Xi about the Nanqian Kingdom and said Fenggui’s cities were already his, while Great Wisdom True Lord arranged to rent rooms in Qi Yuan’s home.
• Qi Yuan called on the Seven Kingdoms Representatives to void their agreements, and they agreed, compelled by the sense of closeness they felt toward him.

Qi Yuan used his overwhelming power to defeat fifteen Eastern Lands prides and set out to drive the Moro Clan from Moon Gazing Continent. After learning that the Moon Dynasty’s veiled child High Priest lived near Seventh Moon Lake, he suspected she might be the Moon Girl and resolved to investigate after defending the continent.

• Qi Yuan voided the Seven Kingdoms Representatives’ unsigned agreement with the Eastern Lands prides and challenged the assembled cultivators.
• Qi Yuan’s pressure pinned fifteen prides down, and he discovered that Gu Xiaoyao had an imperfect Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment; he then left with Luo Xi, Jiang Ya, Great Wisdom True Lord, and Xu Tongchen.
• The defeated prides identified Qi Yuan as the Blood Robe Sword God and vowed to oppose his control of Moon Gazing Continent; Ling Jiao collapsed after threatening him.
• Qi Yuan learned that Luo Xi had been an Oath Moon Follower and that the Moon Dynasty remained near the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree, with its High Priest living in July Town beside Seventh Moon Lake.
• Luo Xi described the High Priest as a child-bodied, veiled sword expert who served the Moon God, prompting Qi Yuan to suspect she might be the Moon Girl.
• Qi Yuan declared that he would kill the Moro Clan in Fenggui and the other six nations, then visit the Moon Dynasty to uncover the truth.

Qi Yuan destroyed the Moro armies across Feng Gui and the other kingdoms, gathering cultivation techniques as he traveled and explaining that Moon Gazing Continent was his home. In Chuang Kingdom, Prince Zhao Ci remained devoted to the Faceless Sword God despite the humiliation he suffered from the Azure Wave cultivator Zhang Yan, who doubted the Blood Robe Sword God could save the kingdom.

• Qi Yuan arrived at Feng Gui with Luo Xi and his companions, then annihilated eight thousand Moro warriors with one sword strike and transformed the battlefield into a sea of flowers.
• Qi Yuan left to save the other kingdoms, and Luo Xi, the young queen, and General Qi wondered about his familiar swordsmanship and his claim that Moon Gazing Continent was his home.
• Over five days, Qi Yuan wiped out nearly a hundred thousand Moro across seven kingdoms and had each ruler gather cultivation techniques for Jiang Ya.
• At the Wei Kingdom palace, Qi Yuan accepted the collected manuals and said he would pass through Chuang Kingdom, where other Azure Wave cultivators might oppose him.
• Jiang Ya questioned why the people revered Qi Yuan so deeply, and he said they were his children because he had become the world's Heavenly Dao.
• In Chuang Kingdom, Zhao Ci refused to abandon his devotion to the Faceless Sword God, while Zhang Yan mocked the idea that Qi Yuan could save the kingdom.