Chapter Summaries

After Ye Xiwen was excluded from the True Martial School’s direct recruitment, he decided to enter through its brutal examination instead. With the sect’s elite gone and the Demon Worship Sect growing bolder, he fought across the Dayue Kingdom and prepared to break through to True Dao Paragon.

• Yi Yuan Sect disciples celebrated Ye Xiwen’s victory over Gu Yun, then grew angry when Ye Xiwen was left off the list of recruits bound for the True Martial School.
• Ye Xiwen told Ye Feng that he would take the examination a year later, accepting the harder path into the True Martial School.
• The Yi Yuan Sect’s selected disciples, including Huang Luochen, Qi Feifan, Shui Yanluo, and Hua Menghan, departed for the True Martial School, leaving Ye Xiwen and Chu Jingcai as the only remaining Personal Disciples.
• As the Demon Worship Sect intensified its disturbances, Ye Xiwen destroyed more than twenty of its strongholds and gained a reputation across the Dayue Kingdom.
• With his resources sufficient, Ye Xiwen resolved to use a Half-step Legendary Corpse Core and spirit pills to advance from True Dao Level Eight to True Dao Paragon.

While Ye Xiwen remained in seclusion, the Demon Worship Sect and the Devil Race launched a massive assault on the Yi Yuan Sect. The sect’s disciples activated ancient defenses and War Fortresses to fight back, but the Devil Race sent War Behemoths into the battle.

• Ye Xiwen entered seclusion to advance from True Dao Level Eight toward the True Dao Paragon realm, while the Demon Worship Sect’s attacks grew more frequent.
• A Saint realm Devil Race expert tore open a spatial rift at the Yi Yuan Sect’s mountain gate, destroyed a mountain peak, and led hundreds of thousands of Devil Race warriors and Demon Worship Sect disciples in an invasion.
• The Yi Yuan Sect’s disciples formed defensive ranks and fought the Demon Cavalry, while ancient formations and a lightning array inflicted heavy casualties on the invaders.
• The Yi Yuan Sect deployed its War Fortresses, blasting the advancing Devil Race army and slowing its charge.
• War Behemoths hundreds of meters tall emerged from the spatial rift and charged into the battlefield.

The Old Sect Master emerged to defend Yi Yuan Sect against the Devil Race, but the enemy’s Saint Realm leader overwhelmed him. Ye Xiwen then appeared from seclusion, raising the defenders’ morale as he entered the battle and faced Lu Hongwei.

• The Old Sect Master revealed himself and confronted the Devil Race’s Saint Realm leader, burning his life force as they fought.
• The Old Sect Master was blasted into a mountain, while Yi Yuan Sect’s disciples rallied to defend their sect.
• Ye Xiwen emerged from seclusion and slaughtered Devil Race cavalry with his golden aura and Mountain Shaking Seal.
• Ye Xiwen announced that the sect master and Supreme Elders would soon arrive, bolstering the defenders’ morale.
• Lu Hongwei appeared and challenged Ye Xiwen, vowing revenge for the previous time Ye Xiwen had ruined their plan.

Ye Xiwen battled Lu Hongwei amid the Demon Cavalry’s assault on the Yi Yuan Sect. After Lu Hongwei’s superior strength drove him back, Ye Xiwen used the Heavenly Origin Mirror to suppress his opponent and resumed the fight.

• Lu Hongwei vowed to kill Ye Xiwen and destroy the Yi Yuan Sect, then attacked him with his demonic sword.
• Ye Xiwen summoned Thousand Feather Peak, while Little Wolf and Ye Shu helped slaughter the Demon Cavalry and Ye Feng and the others operated the fortress’s mechanisms.
• Ye Xiwen fought through the Demon Cavalry until Lu Hongwei caught up and pressed him back with attacks fueled by his greater cultivation.
• Ye Mo identified Lu Hongwei as a Half-step Legendary First Level expert, whose combat strength rivaled a Legendary First Level expert.
• Ye Xiwen summoned the Heavenly Origin Mirror, which suppressed Lu Hongwei’s strength, and prepared to fight without restraint.

The Old Sect Master burned his remaining life force to battle the Saint Realm devil, while Ye Xiwen confronted Lu Hongwei and tore apart a Legendary devil’s attack. The Legendary devil threatened Ye Xiwen and Yi Yuan Sect, but Lu Hongwei insisted that Ye Xiwen was his opponent.

• The Old Sect Master rose again and attacked the Saint Realm devil, refusing its offer to become a Demon slave.
• The Old Sect Master unleashed his full sword intent and forced the Saint Realm devil to retreat, though his disciples realized he was burning through his remaining life.
• The Saint Realm devil abandoned its attempt to wait him out and fought the Old Sect Master with its spear.
• Ye Xiwen shattered Lu Hongwei’s sword attack with a dragon claw and struck him with the Mountain Shaking Seal.
• A Legendary devil attacked Ye Xiwen with a giant hand, but Ye Xiwen tore it apart and challenged the Legend to fight him directly.
• The Legendary devil threatened Ye Xiwen and Yi Yuan Sect, while Lu Hongwei demanded that the Legend leave Ye Xiwen to him.

Ye Xiwen fought Lu Hongwei and a Legendary Devil Race expert at once, using his sword intent, recovery art, and Mountain Shaking Seal to overcome them. He killed both opponents, while the Old Sect Master’s battle with a Saint Realm demonic shadow reached its decisive moment.

• Ye Xiwen challenged Lu Hongwei and the Legendary Devil Race expert, then sent the Devil Race expert flying with a sword strike that revealed his power was being suppressed to Half-step Legendary strength.
• Ye Xiwen clashed with both opponents, suffered severe wounds, and quickly healed while the Devil Race expert and Lu Hongwei grew determined to kill him.
• Ye Xiwen continued fighting the two together and used the Mountain Shaking Seal to blast Lu Hongwei away after the Devil Race expert used him as a shield.
• Ye Xiwen pierced the Legendary Devil Race expert’s chest and smashed him into pulp with the Mountain Shaking Seal.
• Ye Xiwen slew Lu Hongwei with a sword strike as the Old Sect Master’s battle with the Saint Realm demonic shadow reached its decisive moment.

The Old Sect Master killed the Saint Realm devil shadow but died after spending his remaining life force, leaving Wu Potian and the Yi Yuan Sect to drive back the invading army. Ye Xiwen returned to Thousand Feather Peak and led its war machine toward the Devil Race's stronghold.

• Ye Xiwen attacked the Demon Cavalry while the Old Sect Master fought the Saint Realm devil shadow in the skies.
• The Old Sect Master cut off the devil shadow's head with the Gui Yi Swordplay, then returned to the Yi Yuan Sect gravely aged and near death.
• Wu Potian led the injured Yi Yuan Sect experts in a counterattack, and the allied Devil Army routed into the spatial rift.
• The Old Sect Master recalled his past and vanished into dust, and Wu Potian ordered the Yi Yuan Sect to kill the fleeing devils.
• Ye Xiwen returned to Thousand Feather Peak, led its formations through the battlefield, and ordered an assault on the Devil Race's nest.

Ye Xiwen and the Yi Yuan Sect destroyed the Devil Race and Demon Worship Sect camp after the Old Sect Master’s death, though the sect suffered devastating losses. As the Yi Yuan Sect rebuilt and honored the Old Sect Master, Ye Xiwen learned Jian Wuchen had stayed behind and invited him to travel together to the True Martial School entrance examination.

• Wu Potian and the Yi Yuan Sect forces pursued the retreating demons through the spatial rift and stormed a Devil Race base with their War Fortresses.
• Wu Potian slew the Sage Realm enemy’s remaining forces, and the Yi Yuan Sect annihilated everyone in the camp.
• The battle left the Yi Yuan Sect with more than one-third of its strength lost, while the Devil Race Sage Realm expert and the Old Sect Master both died.
• The Yi Yuan Sect held a grand funeral for the Old Sect Master as it began rebuilding, and Jian Wuchen came to pay his respects.
• Ye Xiwen asked Jian Wuchen why he had not gone to the True Martial School, and Jian Wuchen explained that the junior brothers he had led had all died.
• Jian Wuchen said he would carve out his Dao with his sword, and Ye Xiwen invited him to travel together to the True Martial School entrance examination.

Ye Xiwen, Jian Wuchen, and Little Wolf traveled toward True Martial School and stopped in Shun'an Prefecture, where they learned that the journey would pit young martial artists against one another. After local youths mocked the Southeast Region, a visiting martial artist challenged their arrogance.

• Ye Xiwen, Jian Wuchen, and Little Wolf entered Shun'an Prefecture and rested at an inn.
• Richly dressed youths discussed True Martial School's recruitment and boasted that Great Ming Empire martial artists outclassed those from the ten nations of the Southeast Region.
• Ye Xiwen realized the journey could bring fierce clashes with ambitious peers and older martial artists, while Jian Wuchen welcomed the chance to test his sword dao.
• The youths praised the Shun'an Prefecture Twin Heroes and hoped Ferocious Wolf would slaughter a martial artist from the Southeast Region.
• A Southeast Region martial artist stood up and challenged the Great Ming youths' claim that they could defeat all the experts from the ten nations.

Ye Xiwen and Jian Wuchen witnessed Xiao Zhen challenge Qiu Xinzhi after the Shun'an warriors insulted the Southeast Region, but Qiu Xinzhi overwhelmed him. Jian Wuchen intervened when Qiu Xinzhi tried to seize Liu Yueru, leaving Qiu Xinzhi alarmed by the strength of his opponent.

• Qiu Xinzhi killed a Southeast Region warrior, prompting Xiao Zhen to challenge him despite Liu Yueru's warning.
• Xiao Zhen and Qiu Xinzhi fought outside the tavern, where Qiu's wolf attacks gradually cornered Xiao Zhen.
• Qiu Xinzhi shattered Xiao Zhen's sword and sent him crashing down, then struck the warriors who tried to save him.
• Liu Yueru confronted Qiu Xinzhi, who mocked her and tried to grab her with a hand of condensed qi.
• Jian Wuchen cut Qiu Xinzhi's hand with Sword Qi and warned him that he would kill him, making Qiu realize Jian was far stronger.

Jian Wuchen defeated Qiu Xinzhi after Qiu challenged the Southeast Region’s martial artists, and Ye Xiwen and Jian Wuchen waited in Shun'an Prefecture for Qiu’s brother Ferocious Wolf. That night, a Half-step Legendary assassin attacked Jian Wuchen, and Ye Xiwen watched for an opening as the fight began.

• Jian Wuchen severed Qiu Xinzhi’s right arm, then returned to Ye Xiwen while Qiu’s companions fled with him.
• Xiao Zhen and Liu Yueru thanked Ye Xiwen and Jian Wuchen, and Ye Xiwen said he wanted to face Ferocious Wolf.
• Ye Xiwen and Jian Wuchen stayed in Shun'an Prefecture, where rumors of their victory spread and no one dared challenge them.
• Ye Xiwen discussed the dangers of the road to True Martial School with Little Wolf and Ye Mo as night fell.
• A Half-step Legendary assassin ambushed Jian Wuchen with a poisoned dagger, but Jian Wuchen broke through the attacker’s pressure and counterattacked.
• Ye Xiwen locked onto the assassin with his aura and held back while Jian Wuchen fought him.

Jian Wuchen killed the Half-step Legendary assassin after a brutal fight, but the poison left him needing seclusion to recover. The next day, Qiu Lang confronted Ye Xiwen over his younger brother’s injury, and their auras clashed as they prepared to fight.

• Jian Wuchen fought the Half-step Legendary assassin while Ye Xiwen watched, and the battle drew the attention of powerful figures across Shun'an Prefecture City.
• Jian Wuchen condensed his sword lights into a giant sword, killed the assassin, and suffered severe injuries from poison.
• Ye Xiwen and Jian Wuchen moved to another inn, where Jian Wuchen entered seclusion to heal.
• Qiu Lang arrived above the inn and demanded that Ye Xiwen and Jian Wuchen come out to die over his younger brother’s injury.
• Ye Xiwen denied injuring Qiu Lang’s brother himself, mocked Qiu Lang’s title, and met his challenge as their auras collided.

Ye Xiwen battled Qiu Lang, a formidable Half-step Legendary fighter, in a fierce blade duel above the city. As their artistic conceptions clashed, Ye Xiwen sent a dragon-shaped blade aura charging at Qiu Lang.

• Qiu Lang attacked Ye Xiwen with an Azure Wolf formed from blade aura, but Ye Xiwen seized its fangs and tore it apart with his bare hands.
• Qiu Lang charged Ye Xiwen with his long blade, and the two fought at peak Half-step Legendary strength above the city.
• Ye Xiwen and Qiu Lang exchanged repeated blade strikes, sustaining wounds as Ye Xiwen’s Phoenix Rebirth Art rapidly healed him.
• Ye Xiwen’s domineering moonlit blade imagery clashed repeatedly with Qiu Lang’s Desert Howling at the Moon artistic conception.
• Ye Xiwen roared and slashed down a dragon-shaped blade aura toward Qiu Lang.

Ye Xiwen overwhelmed Qiu Lang after Qiu Lang transformed into a werewolf, then killed him with the Mountain Shaking Seal. The chapter ended with the author explaining how Half-step Legendary levels corresponded to breakthroughs in the Legendary and Saint realms.

• Ye Xiwen wounded Qiu Lang, who transformed into a werewolf and rapidly healed with the power of the wolf god's blood.
• Qiu Lang attacked Ye Xiwen with monstrous strength, but Ye Xiwen matched him with the Coiling Dragon Palm and his Overlord Body Golden Body.
• Ye Xiwen drove Qiu Lang back with repeated attacks, while the city's experts raised a barrier to protect Shun'an Prefecture City.
• Ye Xiwen destroyed half of Qiu Lang's body with a Coiling Dragon Palm and brought down the Mountain Shaking Seal despite a voice calling for him to stop.
• The Mountain Shaking Seal crushed Qiu Lang into blood mist, and Ye Xiwen absorbed the trace of divinity in it.
• The author clarified how Half-step Legendary levels measured genius and determined the level reached upon entering the Legendary realm.

Ye Xiwen fled a Legendary Realm expert from the Qiu Lineage after killing Qiu Lang, struggling to survive the old man's attacks. To escape, Ye Xiwen plunged into a demonic beast's heavenly tribulation, leaving the old man unable to follow.

• Ye Xiwen absorbed the golden wolf divinity and fled as a Qiu Lineage elder pursued him out of the city.
• The elder used spatial confinement and divine attacks to wound Ye Xiwen, who relied on his Demon Wings and Phoenix Rebirth Art to keep going.
• The elder threatened to kill Ye Xiwen's family and Lineage, enraging Ye Xiwen as the chase continued toward the border of Shun'an Prefecture.
• Ye Mo spotted a demonic beast undergoing heavenly tribulation, and Ye Xiwen chose to fly into it to escape his pursuer.
• The heavenly tribulation's lightning struck Ye Xiwen, while the Qiu Lineage elder stopped at its edge and watched him disappear beneath the storm.

Ye Xiwen endured and absorbed a heavenly tribulation to break through to the fourth layer of the Overlord Body Art. With the tribulation over, he faced a wounded Fire Kirin Beast that had just survived its own Legendary tribulation.

• An old man retreated as Ye Xiwen joined the Fire Kirin Beast’s heavenly tribulation, making the lightning more dangerous.
• Ye Mo urged Ye Xiwen to absorb the lightning and temper his body with the Overlord Body Art.
• Ye Xiwen endured the escalating lightning, then absorbed a final lightning dragon and broke through to the fourth layer of the Overlord Body Art.
• The tribulation ended, revealing a badly injured Fire Kirin Beast that glared at Ye Xiwen and began locking onto him with its Legendary aura.
• Ye Mo urged Ye Xiwen to kill the weakened beast and absorb its Demon Core before it recovered.

Ye Xiwen killed the recovering Fire Kirin Beast and absorbed its Legendary Realm Demon Core in a secluded cave. After repeatedly striking the realm barrier with the beast’s energy, he broke through into the Half-step Legendary Realm.

• Ye Xiwen attacked the injured Fire Kirin Beast, exploiting his faster recovery to overwhelm it with saber strikes and martial techniques.
• Ye Xiwen shattered the Fire Kirin Beast’s spine and pierced its skull, killing it and taking its crimson Demon Core.
• Ye Mo urged Ye Xiwen to absorb the Demon Core so he could reach the Half-step Legendary Realm and challenge the old man.
• Ye Xiwen concealed himself in a cave, guarded by the Heavenly Origin Mirror, and began absorbing the Demon Core’s fire-attributed energy.
• Ye Xiwen repeatedly drove his strengthened true essence against the barrier between the True Dao Paragon and Half-step Legendary Realm until it collapsed.
• Ye Xiwen broke through into the Half-step Legendary Realm, while the Heavenly Origin Mirror concealed the pressure of his new aura.

After breaking through to the Half-step Legendary Realm, Ye Xiwen confronted the Qiu family force sent to kill him. He crushed one Half-step Legendary expert and overwhelmed the Qiu family elder, leaving the battle still in progress.

• Ye Xiwen absorbed the crimson Demon Core and reached the Half-step Legendary Realm, gaining formidable strength and control over space.
• The Qiu family elder arrived with two Half-step Legendary experts and a large force to search for Ye Xiwen.
• Ye Xiwen emerged and killed a squad of Zhen Dao martial artists with a blast of power.
• A middle-aged Half-step Legendary expert attacked Ye Xiwen, who shattered his arm with a bare-handed strike and crushed him with the Mountain Shaking Seal.
• The Qiu family elder attacked Ye Xiwen with an azure wolf formed from true essence, but Ye Xiwen escaped his spatial restraints and tore the wolf apart.
• Ye Xiwen fought the elder with Hidden Dragon Emerges from the Abyss and struck him hard enough to send him flying.

Ye Xiwen annihilated the Qiu Lineage’s strongest expert and slaughtered its remaining fighters before returning to Shun'an Prefecture City. He learned that Little Wolf and Jian Wuchen had already escaped safely, then set out to await news of them.

• Ye Xiwen pursued the wounded old man, killed the Qiu Lineage fighters who tried to intervene, and tore a Half-step Legendary expert apart.
• The old man restored himself to his peak and unleashed his strongest blade attack, but Ye Xiwen broke through it and crushed him with the Mountain Shaking Seal.
• Ye Xiwen imprisoned the fleeing Qiu Lineage fighters with Space Imprisonment and slaughtered the Zhen Dao-level martial artists with Crescent Moon Slash.
• Ye Xiwen told Ye Mo he intended to defeat every opponent and become the strongest so he could seek a way back to Earth.
• Ye Xiwen returned to Shun'an Prefecture City and learned that Little Wolf and Jian Wuchen had already departed safely.

Ye Xiwen encountered the Mo Family siblings being pursued by the God Army and killed their Half-step Legendary pursuer after the group attacked him. He drove the remaining soldiers away and considered the Five Great Divine Lords, his likely future rivals, before Mo Yan thanked him.

• Ye Xiwen entered a mountain range and came across the wounded Mo Yan and Mo Xiang fleeing the God Army over a Sword Token.
• The God Army's Half-step Legendary leader attacked Ye Xiwen even after he stepped aside, so Ye Xiwen intervened to protect the siblings.
• A God Army member attacked Ye Xiwen, and Ye Xiwen killed him with a shout.
• The Half-step Legendary leader attacked Ye Xiwen, who killed him with a single golden-dragon slash.
• Ye Xiwen ordered the remaining God Army members to leave and reflected on the Five Great Divine Lords before Mo Yan thanked him for saving them.