Chapter Summaries

Yuwen Shengxin fled to her cave abode after realizing what had happened while she pretended to be unconscious, while Lin Feng inspected the newly built city at the foot of the sect mountain. Lin Feng named it Divine Sword City and summoned a City Protection Stele that astonished the Martial Queen and Yao Wanli.

• Yuwen Shengxin cursed Lin Feng and Xuanyuan Qingtian, then returned to her cave abode and plunged into its hot spring.
• Lin Feng woke after Yuwen Shengxin left, cleaned the jade bed, and used the system map to inspect the new palaces built by the Martial Queen and Yao Wanli.
• The system rewarded Lin Feng with a City Protection Stele after detecting that a city had been established at the sect mountain's foot.
• Lin Feng named the city Divine Sword City and summoned the golden stele to its gate.
• The Martial Queen and Yao Wanli rushed to the gate and sensed the stele's powerful Dao resonance, sword intent, and fortune-enhancing power.

Lin Feng received the system’s rewards after protecting Dugu Qingming, including her unwavering devotion and a chance to seek the Chaos Axe, while learning that the two sword techniques remained sealed. Elsewhere in Yi City, a purple-clad prince pursued his younger sister through a village massacred without survivors.

• Lin Feng named the royal city Divine Sword City, and Martial Queen and Yao Wanli thanked him.
• The system rewarded Lin Feng with the ultimate profundities of two sealed forms, Dugu Qingming’s devotion, and preliminary acknowledgment from the Chaos Axe Spirit.
• Lin Feng reflected on the rewards and imagined wielding the Xuanyuan Divine Sword and Chaos Axe alongside Xuanyuan Qingtian and Dugu Qingming.
• A remote village in Yi City was found massacred, with women, children, and elders all dead.
• A purple-clad youth riding a Dragon Tiger Beast taunted his younger sister and claimed she could not escape him.

Ximen Ling'er watched her cousin Ximen Wuji massacre the village where she had lived after he stole her Saint Spirit Bone and ruined her cultivation. As her rage drove her to swear revenge, an elderly woman urged her to flee before Ximen Wuji found them.

• Ximen Ling'er saw that Ximen Wuji had slaughtered everyone in the village, including the people who had become her family.
• Ximen Ling'er recalled how Ximen Wuji's mother had stolen her Saint Spirit Bone when she was six, and how the Shenzhou Dynasty's ancestors had spared Ximen Wuji to protect the dynasty's destiny.
• Ximen Ling'er remembered that her father, Ximen Xiaotian, had sent her to the village to keep her safe from palace intrigues.
• Ximen Ling'er swore to avenge the village and the loss of her Saint Spirit Bone.
• An elderly white-haired woman warned Ximen Ling'er to leave before Ximen Wuji caught up with them.

Ximen Wuji caught up with Ximen Ling'er and Granny Wang, intending to kill them, but Granny Wang sent Ling'er toward the Divine Sword Sect and sacrificed herself in a self-destructing blast. At Heaven-Defying Peak, Lin Feng received a system offer to activate a Personal Goddess Steward Template.

• Ximen Wuji caught up with Ximen Ling'er and Granny Wang, bringing a True Emperor Realm elder and admitting he had slaughtered the village.
• Granny Wang sent Ximen Ling'er away and told her to head for the Divine Sword Sect.
• Granny Wang self-destructed to hold off Ximen Wuji and the elder, creating a massive explosion that leveled the surrounding hills.
• At Heaven-Defying Peak, Lin Feng heard the system offer him a Personal Goddess Steward Template and reacted with a twitch of his mouth.

Lin Feng activated the system’s Personal Goddess Steward Template, prompting a young woman from the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan to set out for the Divine Sword Sect. The chapter explained Hu Xian’s clan’s history and ended as the summoned woman arrived before her.

• Lin Feng activated the ancient token and received confirmation that a goddess steward would soon come to the Divine Sword Sect.
• A peerlessly beautiful young woman in the Jade Pool Secret Realm received the summons and left to bid farewell to her mother.
• Hu Xian recalled how a golden giant egg had saved the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan from attackers and brought her to the Jade Pool Secret Realm.
• Hu Xian remembered that the River of Chaos had allowed the clan to reproduce and rebuild in seclusion.
• The summoned young woman descended before Hu Xian.

The chapter revealed Dongfang Qingyao’s extraordinary origins and her place as the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan’s future successor. After sensing a powerful summons from the Divine Sword Sect, she asked Hu Xian to let her leave the Jade Pool Secret Realm, but Hu Xian reacted with anger and demanded an explanation.

• Hu Xian’s daughter, Dongfang Qingyao, was revealed to be the giant egg that had once saved the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan and was born after Hu Xian nurtured her for 4,984 years.
• Dongfang Qingyao had been named by heaven at birth, awakened Five Tails at a young age, and become the clan’s future successor.
• Dongfang Qingyao told Hu Xian that she felt called to the Divine Sword Sect and wanted to leave the Jade Pool Secret Realm.
• Hu Xian erupted with a terrifying aura and recalled the clan’s rules and warnings that the outside world was dangerous and its men would prey on fox women.
• Hu Xian suppressed her anger and asked why Dongfang Qingyao wanted to leave, and Dongfang Qingyao said an immense opportunity awaited her outside and might benefit the entire clan.

Dongfang Qingyao told Hu Xian that she sensed she had to go to the Divine Sword Sect and become its Sect Master's personal steward, leaving her mother furious and herself determined to obey the call in her heart.

• Hu Xian mistook Dongfang Qingyao's sensed opportunity for a chance to gain a powerful inheritance and help the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan rise.
• Dongfang Qingyao revealed that she intended to become the Divine Sword Sect Master's personal steward and attend to his daily needs.
• Hu Xian erupted in anger, insisting that the Saintess should not demean herself by serving another person.
• Dongfang Qingyao remained calm and resolved, acknowledging her initial shame but saying that her growing inner call compelled her to go.

Hu Xian and the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan elders were horrified when Dongfang Qingyao announced she intended to leave the Jade Pool Secret Realm and serve as the Divine Sword Sect Sect Master’s personal steward. The elders failed to change her mind, and Hu Xian erupted in anger at her daughter’s defiance.

• Hu Xian summoned the elders after Dongfang Qingyao’s decision left her furious and ashamed.
• Dongfang Qingyao told the elders she had received an intuition to go to the Divine Sword Sect and attend to its Sect Master’s daily needs.
• The elders reacted with shock and tried to persuade Dongfang Qingyao to remain in the Jade Pool Secret Realm.
• Dongfang Qingyao questioned how the elders could condemn men when they had never seen one, since the realm had been sealed for five thousand years.
• Hu Xian rebuked Dongfang Qingyao for talking back, and her aura warped and crushed the surrounding space.

Dongfang Qingyao left the Jade Pool Secret Realm for the Divine Sword Sect, while Hu Xian secretly set out to follow her and planned to destroy the sect if it mistreated her. Ximen Ling'er reached Divine Sword City seeking the Divine Sword Sect as her last hope for regaining her cultivation and avenging Granny Wang, as Ximen Wuji continued hunting her.

• Dongfang Qingyao insisted on becoming the Divine Sword Sect's personal chief steward, and Hu Xian let her leave while secretly following her.
• Hu Xian told the elders she intended to make Dongfang Qingyao abandon her plans by seeing the outside world, and threatened to flatten the Divine Sword Sect if necessary.
• Ximen Ling'er mourned Granny Wang and vowed to avenge her and the villagers, believing the Divine Sword Sect could help her return to the Martial Path.
• Ximen Wuji recovered from his fear of Granny Wang's self-detonation and ordered the goateed old man to keep hunting Ximen Ling'er.
• Ximen Ling'er fled to the gates of Divine Sword City.

Ximen Ling'er reached Divine Sword City, where Ximen Wuji and Elder Wan tried to kill her. The City Protection Stele unleashed a golden sword light that instantly killed Elder Wan, leaving Ximen Wuji terrified and fleeing.

• Ximen Ling'er admired Divine Sword City and sensed profound Dao resonance in its golden stele, but lamented that her stolen Saint Spirit Bone kept her from grasping the opportunity.
• Ximen Ling'er declared that she would join the Divine Sword Sect and entered Divine Sword City.
• Ximen Wuji caught up with Ximen Ling'er and ordered Elder Wan, a True Emperor Realm expert, to kill her.
• As Elder Wan's pressure threatened Ximen Ling'er, the City Protection Stele released a golden sword light that annihilated him.
• Ximen Wuji panicked when Elder Wan died, and his Dragon Tiger Beast threw him off and fled.

Ximen Ling'er survived Ximen Wuji’s attack when an unseen force in Divine Sword City drove him away, and she later climbed the Divine Sword Sect’s Cosmos Heavenly Ladder seeking entry. Lin Feng noticed a trace of Great Dao aura in the seemingly powerless young woman and grew curious about her past.

• Ximen Wuji used the Blood Escape Great Law to flee Divine Sword City after a terrifying force struck him, leaving Ximen Ling'er alive.
• Several hundred thousand li away, Ximen Wuji recovered enough to leave for the Shenzhou Dynasty and vowed to kill Ximen Ling'er if she ever left the Divine Sword Sect.
• Lin Feng inspected the growing Divine Sword Sect and noticed Ximen Ling'er climbing the Cosmos Heavenly Ladder.
• Lin Feng sensed Great Dao aura in Ximen Ling'er despite her lack of spiritual energy and suspected that her Saint Spirit Bone had been taken from her.

Lin Feng used the Heavenly Secret Art to identify Ximen Ling'er as a high-luck girl whose Saint Spirit Bone had been excavated, then heard how her cousin's family stole it and hunted her down. He accepted her into the Divine Sword Sect, giving her a chance to return to the Martial Path and take revenge.

• Lin Feng examined Ximen Ling'er with the Heavenly Secret Art and learned that she had an excavated Saint Spirit Bone and a Luck Value of 50000.
• Lin Feng summoned Ximen Ling'er from the Cosmos Heavenly Ladder to the hall and asked why she wanted to join the Divine Sword Sect.
• Ximen Ling'er told Lin Feng that her cousin's mother had dug out her Saint Spirit Bone, and that her cousin later slaughtered the villagers who sheltered her and pursued her to Divine Sword City.
• Ximen Ling'er begged Lin Feng to take her in so she could regain her strength and avenge her enemies.
• Lin Feng accepted Ximen Ling'er as a disciple, and her loyalty to him rose from sixty percent to eighty percent.

Lin Feng gave Ximen Ling'er an Immortal Venerable Bone and guided her as she began rebuilding her cultivation. As she endured the painful fusion, her body transformed and a new bone began growing where her Saint Spirit Bone had been removed.

• The system rewarded Lin Feng for recruiting Ximen Ling'er with an Immortal Venerable Bone and several cultivation treasures and techniques.
• Lin Feng explained the Immortal Venerable Bone's power and placed it in Ximen Ling'er's mind.
• Lin Feng urged Ximen Ling'er to comprehend and fuse with the bone, and she began the process in the great hall.
• The Immortal Venerable Bone's energy shattered Ximen Ling'er's meridians, but she endured the agony, determined to regain her cultivation and avenge Granny Wang and the villagers.
• Ximen Ling'er's meridians and body began rapidly repairing and transforming, while an Immortal Venerable Bone grew at the site of her former Saint Spirit Bone.

Ximen Ling'er fused with and tempered two Immortal Venerable Bones, then prepared to undergo a lightning tribulation to gain heaven and earth's recognition. The tribulation clouds gathered over the Divine Sword Sect as its elders, disciples, and powerful inhabitants watched from afar.

• Lin Feng observed Ximen Ling'er finish fusing with one Immortal Venerable Bone and realized she needed a lightning tribulation to complete her transformation.
• Ximen Ling'er continued tempering another bone instead of immediately facing the tribulation, and she successfully gained a second Immortal Venerable Bone.
• Ximen Ling'er told Lin Feng she was ready to undergo the lightning tribulation, and he brought her to a mountaintop within the sect.
• Heaven and earth gathered dark tribulation clouds over the Divine Sword Sect as Ximen Ling'er faced the sky with resolve.
• The sect's elders, disciples, Kirin Clan members, and powerful figures including Village Chief Xiong Ba, the Formation Demon, the Talisman King, the Bloodthirsty Sword Emperor, and Fire King Lin watched the approaching tribulation.

Ximen Ling'er endured successive lightning tribulations as her Immortal Venerable Bone cracked and healed, growing stronger with each strike. As the Eye of Lightning continued preparing a more dangerous assault, she remained resolute atop the mountain.

• Lin Jiutian admired Ximen Ling'er's transformation and wondered who Lin Feng was.
• The first lightning strike wounded Ximen Ling'er and cracked her Immortal Venerable Bone, which quickly healed with greater power.
• A vast Eye of Lightning gathered in the sky as Lin Feng warned that the true tribulation was beginning.
• The Eye of Lightning struck Ximen Ling'er again, blasting her away and cracking her bone, but it healed and her aura grew stronger.
• The Divine Sword Sect elders and disciples marveled at Ximen Ling'er's endurance, while Yuwen Shengxin thought sourly about Lin Feng favoring her.

Ximen Ling'er survived the lightning tribulation and completed her Immortal Venerable Bone Physique, advancing to the Heavenly Immortal Realm. Lin Feng rewarded her with powerful cultivation methods and the Innate Purple Bamboo, deepening her loyalty to him and the Divine Sword Sect.

• Three powerful bolts of lightning shattered Ximen Ling'er's golden shield and struck her, and Lin Feng caught her as she fell.
• After enduring two hours of the Thunder Power ravaging her body, Ximen Ling'er completed her Immortal Venerable Bone Physique and advanced from the initial stage of the Innate Realm to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Ximen Ling'er thanked Lin Feng and pledged her life to the Divine Sword Sect, raising her loyalty to him to one hundred percent.
• Lin Feng gave Ximen Ling'er the Nirvana Rebirth Art, the Divine Weapon Thunder Control True Art, and the ultimate Dao-level treasure called the Innate Purple Bamboo.

After receiving leave from Lin Feng, Ximen Ling'er set out to return to the Shenzhou Dynasty and settle her blood debt with Ximen Wuji. There, Ximen Xiaotian learned that her village had been massacred, and he confronted Ximen Wuji, who denied involvement and secretly neutralized his pressure.

• Lin Feng granted Ximen Ling'er leave to return to the Shenzhou Dynasty and confront Ximen Wuji.
• Ximen Xiaotian learned that Ximen Ling'er's village had been slaughtered, though no trace of her had been found.
• After hearing of battle damage near the village, Ximen Xiaotian suspected Ximen Wuji and ordered his arrest, permitting the guards to kill him if he resisted.
• Ximen Wuji appeared before Ximen Xiaotian, denied knowing about the village massacre, and used a treasure from the dynasty's ancestor to dispel the king's aura.

Ximen Ling'er returned to the Shenzhou Dynasty hall and accused Ximen Wuji of destroying her refuge and murdering the village that sheltered her. She revealed that the Divine Sword Sect had restored her path and raised her cultivation to the Heavenly Immortal Realm, leaving Ximen Wuji horrified by her power.

• Ximen Xiaotian questioned Ximen Wuji about Ximen Ling'er's disappearance, and Ximen Wuji feigned ignorance.
• Ximen Ling'er entered the hall and accused Ximen Wuji of stealing her Saint Spirit Bone, slaughtering the village, and driving her into exile.
• Ximen Xiaotian welcomed Ximen Ling'er and was shocked to discover that she had reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm and carried an aura he could not probe.
• Ximen Ling'er told Ximen Xiaotian that she had joined the Divine Sword Sect and received a supreme opportunity from its Sect Master.
• Ximen Wuji recognized that Ximen Ling'er's presence made his Saint Spirit Bone tremble and suspected she had obtained an even greater treasure bone.

Ximen Xiaotian killed Ximen Wuji after Ximen Ling'er exposed his crimes, provoking the Shenzhou Dynasty's ancestor and ministers. Ximen Ling'er revealed her Immortal Venerable Bone and defended the killing before the hostile court.

• Ximen Ling'er accused Ximen Wuji of slaughtering villagers and pursuing her, and Ximen Xiaotian crushed him with his True Emperor Realm power.
• The Shenzhou Dynasty's Great Saint ancestor arrived and condemned Ximen Xiaotian for killing Ximen Wuji, while ministers gathered and denounced him.
• Ximen Xiaotian defended his actions, saying Ximen Wuji was a murderous traitor and that he had acted to protect the dynasty's true future.
• Ximen Ling'er confronted the ancestor and ministers, recounting Ximen Wuji's crimes and declaring that he deserved to die.
• Ximen Ling'er released the aura of her Immortal Venerable Bone, filling the royal hall with Great Dao Charm, Heaven and Earth Laws, and a trace of Venerable pressure.

After learning that Ximen Ling'er had joined the Divine Sword Sect and possessed a supreme treasure bone, the Shenzhou Dynasty patriarch and ministers reversed their stance and fawned over her. Ximen Xiaotian ordered Ximen Wuji's faction eradicated, while Ling'er rejected the court's gifts and remained confident in the power bestowed on her by the Esteemed Sect Master.

• The dynasty patriarch and ministers recognized Ximen Ling'er's supreme treasure bone and learned she was a favored disciple of the Divine Sword Sect.
• The patriarch praised Ximen Xiaotian for killing Ximen Wuji, and the ministers followed by condemning Wuji and flattering Ling'er.
• Ximen Xiaotian felt his authority return as Ling'er's status elevated him and his royal power.
• Ximen Xiaotian decreed the complete eradication of Ximen Wuji's faction, and the patriarch and ministers left after lavishing Ling'er with praise and gifts.
• Ximen Ling'er rejected the ministers' cultivation techniques because she valued the Immortal Venerable Bone and arts bestowed by the Esteemed Sect Master.