Chapter Summaries

Li Gaishi ordered his twelve Golden Armored Guards to seize the Divine Sword Sect’s disciples, but Village Chief Xiong Ba appeared and confronted them with Half-step Saint strength. Confident in their Twelve Earthly Branches Grand Formation, Li Gaishi ordered the guards to behead Xiong Ba, and they formed up as their power surged.

• Li Gaishi commanded the twelve Golden Armored Guards to seize the Divine Sword Sect’s monstrous geniuses.
• Xiong Ba appeared and threatened Li Gaishi and the guards for insulting the sect master and threatening the sect’s disciples.
• The Golden Armored Guards recognized Xiong Ba as at least a True Emperor and possibly a Half-step Saint.
• Li Gaishi explained that the guards could use the Twelve Earthly Branches Grand Formation to contend with a Half-step Saint and ordered them to attack Xiong Ba.
• The twelve Golden Armored Guards formed their formation, drawing in heaven and earth’s spiritual energy as their power rose.

The leading Golden Armored Guard summoned a devastating lightning spear and aimed it at Xiong Ba, leaving the Divine Sword Sect disciples immobilized by its heavenly pressure. Xiong Ba dismissed the attack as false might and prepared to show the guard what a Saint could do as the spear descended.

• The Golden Armored Guard leader reached the Minor Saint Realm and invoked a divine art that gathered energy into his golden spear.
• Lightning struck the spear, and a vast vortex formed above the battlefield, gathering power for a lightning spear aimed at Xiong Ba.
• The attack's Majestic Heavenly Might immobilized Xiong Ba and the surrounding disciples while Li Gaishi watched with cruel amusement.
• Dugu Qingming, Yuwen Shengxin, and Wenren Yin Mei raised a three-colored screen to shield Long Qingcheng and the others.
• Xiong Ba regained his composure, scorned the descending spear, and declared that he would demonstrate the true might of a Saint.

Xiong Ba revealed his Outer Body Dharma Form and used it to annihilate the Jiuli Prince’s twelve Golden Armored Guards. Li Gaishi was left stunned and desperate to escape the Divine Sword Sect.

• Xiong Ba manifested his golden Outer Body Dharma Form and explained that it possessed the combat strength of his prime.
• Xiong Ba’s golden palm destroyed the Golden Armored Guards’ lightning spear and overwhelmed their defenses.
• Xiong Ba’s Dharma Form killed all twelve Golden Armored Guards with one palm, leaving no remnant souls.
• Xiao Qingtian, Yao Wujiang, and the other disciples marveled at Xiong Ba’s strength, while Dugu Qingming, Yuwen Shengxin, and Wenren Yin Mei remained calm.
• Li Gaishi recovered from his shock, cursed the Divine Sword Sect’s terrifying foundation, and wanted to leave immediately.

Lin Feng appeared as the Divine Sword Sect’s Sect Master and confronted Li Gaishi, who had threatened the sect before trying to flee. Lin Feng began using the Circle of Stars Diagram to reclaim Yao Wujiang’s stolen fortune and Dragon Emperor Qi, leaving Li Gaishi horrified as his power and the Jiuli Dynasty’s fortune were drained.

• Li Gaishi tried to flee the Divine Sword Sect, but Lin Feng’s aura sealed off the space and trapped him.
• Lin Feng appeared, and Xiong Ba, Dugu Qingming, Long Qingcheng, and the others greeted him as their Sect Master.
• Li Gaishi invoked his status as a prince and the fortune protecting him, but Lin Feng dismissed his threats.
• Lin Feng told Yao Wujiang that the Jiuli Dynasty had stolen his Yinglong Body’s fortune and Dragon Emperor Qi, and Yao Wujiang eagerly agreed to reclaim them.
• Lin Feng summoned the Circle of Stars Diagram, which began devouring Li Gaishi’s fortune, Dragon Emperor Qi, and the Jiuli Dynasty’s fortune.

Lin Feng devoured Li Gaishi’s destiny and Dragon Emperor Qi, then killed him with a single word. Yao Wujiang reclaimed his destiny and began absorbing it alongside auspicious Dao essence, while the Divine Sword Sect’s disciples gained a new opportunity to cultivate.

• Lin Feng drained Li Gaishi’s destiny and Dragon Emperor Qi, leaving him crippled.
• Li Gaishi threatened Lin Feng, who killed him and destroyed the Python Warship with a single word.
• The Circle of Stars Diagram returned Li Gaishi’s captured destiny and Dragon Emperor Qi to Yao Wujiang.
• Yao Wujiang fused with his recovered Dragon Emperor Qi as auspicious signs, Dao essence, and a trace of the Heaven and Earth Laws descended upon him.
• Long Qingcheng, Ye Jingyun, Li Shengnan, and the other Heavenly Talent Disciples praised Lin Feng and began cultivating, while Xiong Ba wondered what power backed the Divine Sword Sect.

Lin Feng ordered Xiong Ba to guard the disciples as they comprehended, while Yao Wujiang recovered the Dragon Emperor Qi and fortune Li Gaishi had stolen from him. After learning that Lin Feng had killed the Jiuli Dynasty’s heir, Lin Feng decided the dynasty would have to be destroyed.

• Lin Feng ordered Xiong Ba to remain and protect the disciples until they awakened, then sent Dugu Qingming and the other two prodigies back to their residences.
• Yao Wujiang awakened after fusing with the Dragon Emperor Qi, and his stolen fortune and glory returned to him.
• Ye Jingyun and the other disciples congratulated Yao Wujiang, who thanked Lin Feng, swore loyalty to the Divine Sword Sect, and kowtowed toward Heaven-Defying Peak.
• Lin Feng saw Yao Wujiang's worship through the sect map and reflected that killing Li Gaishi had made the Jiuli Dynasty his enemy.
• Lin Feng declared that the Jiuli Dynasty had no need to continue existing within Yi City.

Lin Feng summoned Fire King Lin, intending to send the Kirin Clan against the Jiuli Dynasty. Fire King Lin, worried that the Sect Master meant to evict the clan, arrived at Xuanhuang Hall and faced Lin Feng’s overwhelming pressure.

• Lin Feng decided that the Kirin Clan should repay the Divine Sword Sect’s hospitality by helping destroy the Jiuli Dynasty.
• Lin Feng used the Sect Master's Pressure to summon Fire King Lin to Heaven-Defying Peak.
• The Kirin elders worried that Lin Feng might be preparing to turn the clan away, while Fire God Lin urged his father to answer the summons.
• Fire King Lin resolved to prove the Kirin Clan’s value and remain at the Divine Sword Sect, then traveled to Xuanhuang Hall.
• Lin Feng regarded Fire King Lin with a faint smile as his Sect Master's aura made the Kirin Clan Leader tremble.

Lin Feng ordered Fire King Lin to destroy the Jiuli Dynasty, and Fire King Lin led hundreds of Kirin Divine Beasts toward it. In the Jiuli palace, Li Batian learned that his son’s divine tablet had shattered.

• Lin Feng asked Fire King Lin about the Jiuli Dynasty and ordered him to destroy it.
• Fire King Lin accepted the command and summoned hundreds of Kirin Divine Beasts to march on the Jiuli Dynasty.
• Divine Sword Sect disciples watched the Kirin army depart and resolved to cultivate harder for the sect.
• Li Batian praised the Jiuli Dynasty’s strength and anticipated his son Li Gaishi’s rise to power.
• Li Batian felt his mind reel when he realized Li Gaishi’s divine tablet had shattered.

After Li Batian discovered that Li Gaishi’s soul had scattered, he vowed to avenge his son and reclaim the Dragon Emperor Qi and the Jiuli Dynasty’s lost destiny. He summoned the Jiuli Sacred Cauldron to deduce the killer’s identity.

• Li Batian sensed that Li Gaishi’s soul had scattered and erupted in fury, freezing and blasting people throughout the hall with his aura.
• Li Batian confirmed Li Gaishi’s death and realized that the Jiuli Dynasty had lost some of its destiny.
• The officials learned that Li Gaishi had been killed and raged over the threat to the dynasty’s future.
• Li Batian declared that he would kill the enemy, reclaim the Dragon Emperor Qi and lost destiny, and punish everyone connected to the killer.
• Li Batian summoned the Jiuli Sacred Cauldron, intending to use its divination power to uncover the killer.

Li Batian used the Jiuli Sacred Cauldron to search for the killer of Li Gaishi, but the Fortune Golden Dragon of the Divine Sword Sect blocked the deduction and caused the Sacred Artifact to explode. Li Batian then turned to the maidservants in his son's quarters for clues.

• Li Batian poured his King's Aura into the Jiuli Sacred Cauldron and began deducing who had killed Li Gaishi.
• The Jiuli Sacred Cauldron failed to reveal the murderer, and Li Batian grew uneasy as the deduction dragged on.
• The Fortune Golden Dragon sensed the cauldron probing the Divine Sword Sect's heavenly secrets and sent its pressure toward the Jiuli Dynasty.
• The Jiuli Sacred Cauldron trembled, cracked, and exploded into fragments, leaving Li Batian and his officials horrified.
• Li Batian suspected the killer belonged to a force beyond the Jiuli Dynasty's power and proposed questioning the maidservants in Li Gaishi's sleeping quarters.

Li Batian learned that the Divine Sword Sect had killed Li Gaishi and taken the Jiuli Dynasty’s fortune and Dragon Emperor Qi, so he summoned the dynasty’s secluded Old Ancestor. The Old Ancestor emerged, revealed his role in transferring Yao Wujiang’s fortune to Li Gaishi, and vowed to destroy the Divine Sword Sect and reclaim it.

• Li Batian questioned Li Gaishi’s maid and learned that the prince had gone to attack the Divine Sword Sect after Elder Wu was killed there.
• Li Batian recalled the sect’s growing influence and strength, then decided to summon the Jiuli Dynasty’s Old Ancestor.
• Li Batian knelt outside the forbidden grounds and asked the Old Ancestor to avenge Li Gaishi and recover the dynasty’s fortune and Dragon Emperor Qi.
• The Old Ancestor emerged from seclusion in a display of overwhelming power and condemned the Divine Sword Sect for killing Li Gaishi.
• The Old Ancestor revealed that he had used a Forbidden Divine Ability to transfer Yao Wujiang’s fortune and Dragon Emperor Qi to Li Gaishi, then vowed to annihilate the sect and reclaim them.

Old Ancestor of Jiuli transformed into his youthful form and prepared to attack the Divine Sword Sect, but Fire King Lin arrived and overwhelmed the Jiuli Dynasty with his power. Faced with the adult Kirin’s Extreme Dao Saint Realm aura and trace of Emperor Realm aura, Old Ancestor of Jiuli regretted provoking the sect and blamed Li Batian.

• Old Ancestor of Jiuli rejuvenated himself, then punished Li Batian for allowing Li Gaishi to be killed.
• Old Ancestor of Jiuli prepared to descend on the Divine Sword Sect to reclaim the destiny and Dragon Emperor Qi.
• Fire King Lin arrived above the Jiuli Dynasty, crushed much of its palace complex with one step, and demanded that its people choose how to die.
• Old Ancestor of Jiuli recognized Fire King Lin as an adult Kirin whose aura surpassed his own and contained a trace of Emperor Realm power.
• Old Ancestor of Jiuli blamed Li Batian for leading him into danger and regretted ever agreeing to attack the Divine Sword Sect.

Fire King Lin led hundreds of Kirin in destroying the Jiuli Dynasty and killing its king and ancestor after the Divine Sword Sect was provoked. News of the dynasty’s fall spread through Yi City, leaving the Divine Sword Sect’s power the talk of the region.

• Fire King Lin released hundreds of Kirin, who razed the Jiuli Dynasty’s palace complex and slaughtered its royal family while sparing some innocents.
• Fire King Lin stomped Li Batian and the Old Ancestor of Jiuli into blood mist.
• The Kirin finished destroying the Jiuli Dynasty, leaving its palace in ruins.
• The next day, news spread through Yi City that the Divine Sword Sect had destroyed the Jiuli Dynasty with an army of Kirin.

News that the Divine Sword Sect had slain Li Gaishi and destroyed the Jiuli Dynasty stunned martial artists across Yi City and reached the rulers of the Wanshun and Great Shang Dynasties. Yao Wanli considered submitting the Wanshun Dynasty to the sect, while the Martial Queen decided to visit Wenren Yin Mei at the Divine Sword Sect.

• Martial artists in Yi City spread and embellished reports that the Divine Sword Sect had destroyed the Jiuli Dynasty with hundreds of Kirin Divine Beasts.
• Yao Wanli rejoiced that the Divine Sword Sect had killed Li Gaishi, restored Yao Wujiang’s Dragon Emperor Qi, and eliminated the Jiuli Dynasty.
• Yao Wanli considered placing the Wanshun Dynasty under the Divine Sword Sect’s command and began planning when to do so.
• The Martial Queen read the news of Li Gaishi’s death and the Jiuli Dynasty’s destruction, then recognized that the Divine Sword Sect’s power exceeded her expectations.
• The Martial Queen decided to visit Wenren Yin Mei at the Divine Sword Sect the next day and hoped to keep Sect Master Lin from being won over by someone else.

After Fire King Lin destroyed the Jiuli Dynasty, Lin Feng received a system reward package containing new treasures for the Divine Sword Sect. He summoned the Kunwu Tower, Crimson Cloud Immortal Palace, and Immortal Peach Sapling into the sect, leaving the disciples astonished by their arrival.

• Fire King Lin returned to the Divine Sword Sect after destroying the Jiuli Dynasty, and Lin Feng received a system reward package.
• Lin Feng examined the Kunwu Tower and Crimson Cloud Immortal Palace, deciding they would give the sect disciples new ways to train and seek opportunities.
• Lin Feng learned that the Immortal Peach Sapling could produce dew and, eventually, peaches with powerful cultivation and restorative effects.
• Lin Feng used his power to summon the Kunwu Tower, Crimson Cloud Immortal Palace, and Immortal Peach Sapling into the Divine Sword Sect.
• The sect disciples watched the new treasures descend and marveled at Lin Feng's power.

The Esteemed Sect Master introduced the Kunwu Tower, the Crimson Cloud Immortal Palace, and the Immortal Peach Sapling, prompting the disciples to pursue their opportunities. Xuanyuan Qingtian, Yuwen Shengxin, Dugu Qingming, Wenren Yin Mei, and other prodigies entered the tower to test their strength and compete.

• Dugu Qingming, Yuwen Shengxin, Wenren Yin Mei, and Xuanyuan Qingtian examined the Immortal Peach Sapling after sensing its aura.
• The Esteemed Sect Master explained the tower’s trials, the ancient palace’s inheritance, and the Immortal Peach Dew’s benefits and dangers.
• Xuanyuan Qingtian and the other women collected a drop of Immortal Peach Dew, and the female disciples became more determined to cultivate.
• Xuanyuan Qingtian, Yuwen Shengxin, Dugu Qingming, and Wenren Yin Mei flew into the Kunwu Tower, each seeking to improve her strength and compete with the others.
• Long Qingcheng, Ye Jingyun, Yao Wujiang, Li Shengnan, Meng Xiaoxing, Tuoba Kun, Xiao Qingtian, and other disciples entered the tower to prove themselves.

Lin Feng gave Li Shengnan and Long Qingcheng Dao Artifact hairpins that strengthened their abilities, while Xuanyuan Qingtian and the other prodigies challenged Kunwu Tower. The chapter left the women jealous of the gifts and Xuanyuan determined to confront Lin Feng after the challenge.

• Xuanyuan Qingtian, Yuwen Shengxin, Dugu Qingming, and Wenren Yin Mei reached Kunwu Tower’s tenth floor and tied for first place.
• Lin Feng examined the Star Hairpin and Ice Soul Hairpin and decided to give them to Li Shengnan and Long Qingcheng.
• Lin Feng summoned the hairpins to the two women, who thanked him, put them on, and felt their strength increase.
• Li Shengnan and Long Qingcheng vowed to leave their names on Kunwu Tower and continued climbing.
• Xuanyuan Qingtian grew furious that Lin Feng had given the hairpins to other women and resolved to confront him after the challenge.
• Yuwen Shengxin, Dugu Qingming, and Wenren Yin Mei also felt jealous and decided to draw Lin Feng’s attention.

Lin Feng examined the system’s gifts, deciding to save the Three Lives Stone Necklaces as love tokens and keep the Saint Slaying Seal as a trump card. He swallowed the Dao Integration Immortal Grass to strengthen himself, and began refining its overwhelming fire energy.

• Lin Feng discovered that the Three Lives Stone Necklace could unleash devastating power at the cost of its user and decided to give one to Xuanyuan Qingtian as a token of love.
• Lin Feng assessed the Saint Slaying Seal and his other trump cards, concluding that he urgently needed to increase his own strength.
• Lin Feng took the Dao Integration Immortal Grass from the system’s virtual space and swallowed it.
• The immortal grass released immense, scorching energy inside Lin Feng, who relied on his powerful physique and began refining it with all his strength.

Lin Feng comprehended a trace of Innate Fire Dao Law while refining the Dao Integration Immortal Grass, and the next day the Martial Queen arrived at the Divine Sword Sect to visit Wenren Yin Mei and curry favor with Sect Master Lin. She met Yao Wanli outside the sect, where he proudly boasted about his son Wujiang’s gifts from Sect Master Lin.

• Lin Feng refined the Dao Integration Immortal Grass and comprehended a trace of Innate Fire Dao Law, bringing him closer to awakening his Innate Yang Fire Spirit Root.
• The Martial Queen arrived at the Divine Sword Sect, intending to visit Wenren Yin Mei and build a relationship with Sect Master Lin.
• The Martial Queen noticed Yao Wanli emerge from the void outside the sect gate and teased him about bringing beautiful young maidens.
• Yao Wanli said he had come to thank Sect Master Lin and visit Wujiang, then boasted that Wujiang had received the Ancestral Dragon Body and reclaimed the Dragon Emperor Qi and immense fortune.

The Martial Queen and Yao Wanli entered the Divine Sword Sect and were astonished by its powerful new structures and the opportunities they offered. After comprehending the Crimson Cloud Immortal Palace, both gained ancient techniques and continued toward Heaven-Defying Peak.

• The Martial Queen dismissed Yao Wanli’s comparison between his son and her daughter, then entered the Divine Sword Sect ahead of him.
• The Martial Queen and Yao Wanli were stunned by the Kunwu Tower and sensed their children training inside it.
• They encountered the Crimson Cloud Immortal Palace and sat down to comprehend its power.
• The Martial Queen gained the Dao-tier Sacred Heart Art, while Yao Wanli obtained the Dao-tier Blazing Sun Fist.
• The Martial Queen and Yao Wanli exchanged looks of disbelief and resumed their journey toward Heaven-Defying Peak.