Chapter Summaries

Wu Qinglong pressed Zhao Changhe to grant Xiao Chen the Dao Heaven Sacred Pool spot, prompting a dispute among the Tai Xu Sect hall masters. Zhao Changhe awarded the spot to Xiao Chen, but an arrogant voice from the Outer Realm Huang Family challenged his decision and injured Xiao Chen with a powerful sound attack.

• Wu Qinglong asked Zhao Changhe to let Xiao Chen enter the Dao Heaven Sacred Pool, citing his service to the sect and his deadly Evil Curse.
• Hall masters supporting Huang Yelang opposed Wu Qinglong, and two rival hall masters nearly fought before Zhao Changhe forced them apart.
• Zhao Changhe announced that Xiao Chen would receive the Sacred Pool spot because he had saved Tai Xu Sect and its people.
• When Huang Yelang's supporters protested, Zhao Changhe declared his decision final, saying Huang Yelang's roots were not in Tai Xu Sect.
• A voice from outside the hall declared that the Huang Family would not permit the decision and struck Xiao Chen with a powerful sound attack before Zhao Changhe shielded him.

Huang Zhanxue arrived with Huang Yelang, attacked Xiao Chen, and demanded that the Tai Xu Sect give Huang Yelang the Dao Heaven Sacred Pool and let him kill Xiao Chen. Huang Yelang backed him and revealed that his humble, respectful manner toward Zhao Changhe had been a disguise.

• Huang Zhanxue and Huang Yelang entered the hall, and Xiao Chen recognized Huang Zhanxue as the one who had secretly attacked him with sound waves.
• Zhao Changhe confronted Huang Zhanxue over the attack and his claim to the Dao Heaven Sacred Pool, but Huang Zhanxue openly challenged the weakened Tai Xu Sect.
• Huang Zhanxue rebuked two hall masters who tried to mediate and admitted that his past friendship with the Tai Xu Sect had been an act.
• Huang Zhanxue demanded that Xiao Chen be killed and the Sacred Pool given to Huang Yelang, threatening to destroy the Tai Xu Sect if Zhao Changhe refused.
• Huang Yelang called Xiao Chen a lowborn worldly youth, sided with Huang Zhanxue, and blamed Zhao Changhe for granting Xiao Chen a chance at the Sacred Pool.

Huang Yelang and Huang Zhanxue revealed their contempt for Xiao Chen, but Zhao Changhe challenged Huang Zhanxue’s assumptions by claiming Xiao Chen’s guardian had defeated Ye Kuxin. Huang Zhanxue dismissed the claim and questioned what guardian Xiao Chen could possibly have.

• The Tai Xu Sect hall masters and disciples were shocked when Huang Yelang dropped his respectful facade and admitted that conflict and slaughter were part of becoming stronger.
• Huang Yelang rejected the chance to fight Xiao Chen fairly, while Huang Zhanxue moved to kill him.
• Wu Qinglong stood between Huang Zhanxue and Xiao Chen, and Zhao Changhe arrived to shield them from Huang Zhanxue’s pressure.
• Zhao Changhe said Ye Kuxin had fled Tai Xu Mountain defeated, leaving Huang Zhanxue stunned before he dismissed the claim as a lie.
• Zhao Changhe identified Xiao Chen’s guardian as the one who defeated Ye Kuxin, and Huang Zhanxue scoffed that Xiao Chen had no guardian capable of such a feat.

Zhao Changhe used a Shadow Recording Stone to show Huang Zhanxue that Xiao Chen’s guardian had defeated Ye Kuxin, forcing the Huang Family to withdraw from Tai Xu Sect. As Huang Zhanxue and Huang Yelang left, Huang Zhanxue questioned why the guardian had not intervened when he nearly crippled Xiao Chen.

• Zhao Changhe showed Huang Zhanxue a recording of Qiongqi defeating a Demon Race powerhouse and forcing Ye Kuxin to kneel before Xiao Chen.
• Huang Zhanxue abandoned his threat against Xiao Chen and upheld the one-year agreement for Huang Yelang and Xiao Chen to fight over entry to the Dao Heaven Sacred Pool.
• Zhao Changhe ordered the Tai Xu Sect hall masters to conceal Qiongqi’s severe injury, while news of Huang Yelang’s and Huang Zhanxue’s coercion spread among the disciples.
• Huang Zhanxue and Huang Yelang left Tai Xu Sect, and Huang Yelang resented Huang Zhanxue for retreating despite the Huang Family’s ancestors.
• Huang Zhanxue told Huang Yelang that he wanted to investigate why Xiao Chen’s guardian had not intervened when Huang Zhanxue nearly crippled him.

Huang Yelang and Huang Zhanxue planned for Huang Yelang to kill Xiao Chen in the Dragon Transformation Arena, while Xiao Chen returned to his palace and prepared to cultivate the Heaven-Slaying Immortal-Extinguishing Art. Xiao Chen learned that even peerless geniuses had failed to master the Sword Scripture, leaving him uncertain whether he could gain entry within a year.

• Huang Zhanxue told Huang Yelang that Xiao Chen's guardian was likely real but might be injured, and said he would investigate before acting.
• Huang Yelang decided to kill Xiao Chen himself, and Huang Zhanxue agreed that he could defeat Xiao Chen in the Dragon Transformation Arena.
• Xiao Chen returned to his palace in the Moon-Fire Zone and resolved to grow stronger after Huang Yelang's attack nearly damaged his soul.
• Xiao Chen concluded that he needed to reach the Grandmaster Realm and master the Heaven-Slaying Immortal-Extinguishing Art to be certain of defeating Huang Yelang, with only one year to prepare.
• Xiao Chen examined the Heaven-Slaying Immortal-Extinguishing Art and recalled how peerless Outer Realm geniuses had spent decades trying and failing to comprehend it.
• Xiao Chen wondered whether he could gain entry to the Sword Scripture within a year, then began reading it.

Xiao Chen studied the ancient Sword Scripture and met the Blood-Skirt Woman, who challenged him to comprehend its true meaning. Though she doubted his prospects, Xiao Chen spotted a hidden character in the Sword Qi, surprising her.

• Xiao Chen learned that only one person had mastered the Sword Scripture in the past ten thousand years, then resolved to study it on his own.
• A Blood-Skirt Woman appeared in Xiao Chen’s Sea of Consciousness and asked why he cultivated the sword; he answered that he wanted to become strong enough that no one could bully him.
• The Blood-Skirt Woman revealed that she had created the Heaven-Slaying Immortal-Extinguishing Art and filled Xiao Chen’s Sea of Consciousness with Sword Qi for him to examine.
• After initially finding no clear pattern, Xiao Chen sensed a hidden character in the Sword Qi and nearly saw it, astonishing the Blood-Skirt Woman.

Xiao Chen comprehended the first character of the Heaven-Slaying Immortal-Extinguishing Art and engraved it into his dantian, astonishing the Blood-Skirt Woman and Qiongqi. The Blood-Skirt Woman wondered who Xiao Chen truly was.

• Xiao Chen focused on the Ancient Scripture and began resonating with its sword intent, while the Blood-Skirt Woman discovered his Dual Core and Extinction Dao Sword.
• Xiao Chen discerned an ancient character hidden in the sword qi and struggled to see through the light dust veiling it.
• Xiao Chen cleared the veil and recognized the character as “Slay,” releasing a terrifying sword intent.
• The “Slay” character entered Xiao Chen’s brow and settled in his dantian as the sword qi in his Sea of Consciousness returned to a golden ball of light.
• Qiongqi marveled at Xiao Chen’s rapid comprehension, and the Blood-Skirt Woman questioned who he really was.

Xiao Chen learned that he had comprehended only one of the Ancient Scripture’s five characters before receiving an urgent message from Houzi. Ba Ge had been taken by the Ji Family for execution, and Xiao Chen learned how Ba Ge’s parents, Ji Lingyue and Lin Fengkong, had first met.

• The Blood-Skirt Woman told Xiao Chen that he had comprehended one of the Ancient Scripture’s five characters, then vanished from his sea of consciousness.
• Xiao Chen left his secluded chamber to eat spirit fruits, but his communication jade token began flashing with urgent messages from Houzi.
• Houzi told Xiao Chen that the Ji Family had taken Ba Ge and intended to execute him, so Xiao Chen asked what had happened.
• Houzi explained that Ba Ge was descended from the Ji Family and that his mother, Ji Lingyue, had entered the Mortal World to temper her sword heart.
• Ji Lingyue challenged Lin Fengkong, but Demon Race experts ambushed her before their duel; Lin Fengkong risked his life to rescue her.
• Ji Lingyue and Lin Fengkong recovered together in a cave, where they developed feelings for each other.

Xiao Chen learned that Ba Ge had been captured by a powerful Ji Family prodigy and set out to rescue him in Cloudfire City. As he traveled, he reflected on Ba Ge’s family history and hoped his master would forgive him for opposing a descendant.

• Houzi told Xiao Chen that Ba Ge’s father had died and Ba Ge had nearly been crippled, and suspected the Ji Family was responsible.
• Houzi reported that a Ji Family Heavenly Prodigy Rank had captured Ba Ge and planned to take him to Flowing Fire Mountain before returning to the Outer Realm.
• Xiao Chen promised to help Houzi and Xu Congming, then left Tai Xu Mountain for Cloudfire City.
• The Aviary Hall Master lent Xiao Chen a Bloodwing Tiger to pull a Tai Xu Ship, letting him travel quickly toward Cloudfire City.
• Xiao Chen looked at the blood-red Sword Pill and quietly hoped his master would not blame him for fighting the Ji Family descendant.

Xiao Chen headed to Cloudfire City to rescue Ba Ge and claim the Soul-Devouring Sword Crystal, but Ji Wushang gave him a token meant to prevent conflict with the Ji Family. The chapter ended with Ji Yang preparing to sever Ba Ge’s arm while Houzi and Xu Congming waited outside the hall for Xiao Chen.

• Xiao Chen failed to find further clues in the All Heavens Extinguishing Immortal Art while traveling to Cloudfire City.
• Ji Wushang answered Xiao Chen through the Sword Pill and gave him a black token bearing the Wushang name, warning him not to force matters with the Ji Family.
• Xiao Chen entered Cloudfire City and headed for the City Lord’s Manor to meet Houzi and Xu Congming.
• At the manor, Ji Yang beat Ba Ge and demanded the Soul-Devouring Sword Crystal, which could resonate with the second volume of the Heaven-Defying Demon Slayer Art.
• Ba Ge refused to surrender the relic, and Ji Yang raised his hand to sever Ba Ge’s arm while the two cooks outside worried that Xiao Chen had not arrived.

Houzi and Xu Congming confronted Ji Yang in the City Lord's Manor as he tormented Ba Ge, and Ji Yang challenged Xiao Chen to come face him. Xiao Chen arrived at the manor and announced himself, while Ji Yang waited inside for their confrontation.

• Houzi and Xu Congming revealed themselves to stop Ji Yang from attacking Ba Ge, and Houzi said Xiao Chen was on his way.
• Ba Ge urged his brothers to stay out of danger, but Ji Yang struck him and boasted that his Nether Moon Devour Technique could suppress Xiao Chen.
• Ji Yang dismissed the City Lord's Manor guards and told Houzi and Xu Congming he would wait for Xiao Chen to arrive.
• Ji Yang's thoughts revealed that he had come to seize Ba Ge and seek the complete second volume of the Heaven-Defying Demon Slayer Art at Flowing Fire Mountain.
• Xiao Chen arrived at the City Lord's Manor and announced that he was from the Tai Xu Sect, shocking the guards who recognized him as Sword Demon Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen forced his way into Cloudfire City Lord Meng Yuan’s manor to reach his captured old friend, fighting Meng Yuan when the city lord tried to stop him. After Xiao Chen revealed a terrifying ancient killing character, Meng Yuan yielded and ordered a guard to lead him inside, then called the guard back.

• Xiao Chen blasted aside the guards who tried to block him at the manor gates.
• Meng Yuan appeared and challenged Xiao Chen’s reputation, prompting Xiao Chen to demand a fight.
• Xiao Chen and Meng Yuan exchanged hundreds of blows, destroying much of the manor’s outer grounds.
• Xiao Chen revealed the ancient character for “slay,” and Meng Yuan agreed to let him enter.
• Meng Yuan assigned a guard to take Xiao Chen to his old friend, then suddenly called the guard back.

Xiao Chen went to the City Lord's Manor to rescue Ba Ge and the other Heavenly Thunder Gang members, and Meng Yuan let him leave rather than risk angering his powerful backers. In Ji Yang's hall, Xiao Chen freed his friends and revealed that Ji Wushang was his other master, leaving Ji Yang to confront that connection.

• Meng Yuan ordered a guard to tell Ji Yang that the City Lord's Manor had tried to stop Xiao Chen and suffered heavy damage, while privately admitting he had feared Xiao Chen's strength and powerful allies.
• Xiao Chen entered Ji Yang's hall and saw Ba Ge, Houzi, and Xu Congming kneeling under Sword Qi, with Ba Ge beaten and bloodied.
• Ji Yang attacked Xiao Chen with a sword formed from his wine, but Xiao Chen caught and shattered it between two fingers.
• Xiao Chen freed the three Heavenly Thunder Gang members and reminded Ba Ge of their promise to stand by one another.
• Ji Yang dismissed Wu Qinglong as an ant and demanded to know who had taught Xiao Chen his other Sword Dao; Xiao Chen named Ji Wushang as his master.

Ba Ge and Ji Yang doubted Xiao Chen’s claim to be connected to Ji Wushang, the Demon Quelling Sword God, until Xiao Chen produced the long-lost Wushang Token. Ji Yang recognized it as genuine and was left stunned by its appearance in a youth’s hands.

• Ba Ge and Ji Yang recalled how Ji Wushang had saved the Human Race from a million demons and defended it for fifty years.
• Ji Yang warned Xiao Chen that impersonating Ji Wushang’s successor was a capital offense.
• Xiao Chen presented the Wushang Token to Ji Yang.
• Ji Yang recognized the token’s patterns and sword intent as genuine and reacted in terror.
• The members of the Heavenly Thunder Gang were stunned that the Wushang Token had appeared in Xiao Chen’s hands.

After Ji Yang recognized Xiao Chen’s Wushang Token, he fled rather than apologize to Ba Ge, Houzi, and Xu Congming. Xiao Chen and the others left the City Lord’s Manor unhindered, and Meng Yuan approached them with a newfound warmth.

• Xiao Chen revealed that the Wushang Token belonged to his master, Ji Wushang, and demanded that Ji Yang apologize to Ba Ge, Houzi, and Xu Congming.
• Ji Yang refused, claimed he would investigate the token, and escaped in a streak of sword light.
• Xiao Chen confirmed to Houzi and Ba Ge that he was Ji Wushang’s disciple, astonishing them with his connection to the Sword God.
• Meng Yuan wondered why Ji Yang had left in a foul mood, then let Xiao Chen and the Heavenly Thunder Gang members leave without interference.
• Houzi and Ba Ge learned that Xiao Chen’s earlier fight with Meng Yuan had destroyed the manor’s outer grounds, while Xu Congming explained that Xiao Chen’s strength and backing made him difficult to oppose.
• Meng Yuan greeted Xiao Chen with a smile and asked him to stay longer, surprising Ba Ge, Houzi, and Xu Congming.

After leaving the City Lord’s Manor, Xiao Chen prepared to seek the second volume of the Heaven-Defying Demon Slayer Art at Flowing Fire Mountain so he could face Huang Yelang within a year. Ba Ge gave him the Soul-Devouring Sword Crystal, while Ji Lingyue and Ji Yang watched and questioned how Xiao Chen had obtained the Ji ancestor’s Wushang Token.

• Meng Yuan treated Xiao Chen courteously, and Xiao Chen left with the Heavenly Thunder Gang before announcing that he planned to go to Flowing Fire Mountain alone.
• Xiao Chen explained that he needed the second volume of the Heaven-Defying Demon Slayer Art to reach the Grandmaster Realm and survive his life-or-death fight with Huang Yelang.
• Ba Ge gave Xiao Chen the Soul-Devouring Sword Crystal despite its value as his father’s last relic, and Xiao Chen vowed to avenge Ba Ge’s father by killing the red-browed Ji Family sword cultivator.
• Ji Yang complained to Ji Lingyue that Ba Ge had handed the crystal to Xiao Chen, while Ji Lingyue calmly dismissed Ba Ge and questioned whether Xiao Chen’s Wushang Token was genuine and how he could be their ancestor’s disciple.

Ji Lingyue and Ji Yang mistook Xiao Chen’s Wushang Token for one he had found and planned to kill him at Flowing Fire Mountain. Before heading there, Xiao Chen visited Liu Gang’s wife and daughter in Cloudfire City, concealed Liu Gang’s death from them, and the chapter ended when someone kicked open their door.

• Ji Lingyue refused to recognize Xiao Chen as the Demon Quelling Sword God’s successor and planned to kill him after entering Flowing Fire Mountain, while dismissing Ba Ge as disposable.
• Xiao Chen remembered Liu Gang’s kindness and went to visit Liu Gang’s family in Cloudfire City before leaving for Flowing Fire Mountain.
• Wang Lanhua welcomed Xiao Chen into her home, where he saw her illness, poverty, and the hardship she endured to support Liu Xiaotian.
• Liu Xiaotian asked Xiao Chen when her father would return, and Xiao Chen told her Liu Gang was still cultivating rather than revealing his death.
• Someone violently kicked open Wang Lanhua’s front door.

Xiao Chen intervened when a tax officer targeted Wang Lanhua and Liu Xiaotian over an unlawful Demon Subjugation Tax, then defeated the officer’s first attack. He left with the officer and guards to settle the matter outside, while Liu Xiaotian worried about his safety.

• A tax officer and armed guards entered Wang Lanhua’s home and demanded overdue Demon Subjugation Tax, despite Liu Gang’s family being legally exempt.
• The tax officer threatened Wang Lanhua with being sent to the dangerous front lines and tried to strike Liu Xiaotian when she offered her cloth doll as payment.
• Xiao Chen stepped in front of Liu Xiaotian and knocked the tax officer flying with a streak of purple radiance.
• Xiao Chen returned Liu Xiaotian’s doll and told her to treasure it because Liu Gang had made it for her.
• The furious tax officer led his guards outside after Xiao Chen, while Liu Xiaotian asked Wang Lanhua if Xiao Chen would be safe.

Xiao Chen killed the corrupt tax officer Wang Ying and his men after they harassed Liu Gang’s wife and daughter, then forced Meng Yuan to investigate Wang Ying’s household. Before leaving, Xiao Chen gave Wang Lanhua five hundred taels, and she stopped him at the doorway to ask whether Liu Gang was dead.

• Wang Lanhua reassured Liu Xiaotian that Xiao Chen was powerful, then worried when cries and the smell of blood came from the main street.
• Meng Yuan arrived with armored guards and confronted Xiao Chen, who explained that Wang Ying had harassed Liu Gang’s wife and daughter.
• Citizens accused Wang Ying of abusing the poor, and Meng Yuan ordered his home ransacked and his household investigated; when the guard commander objected, Meng Yuan slapped him.
• Meng Yuan assured Xiao Chen that Wang Lanhua and Liu Xiaotian would be safe, and Xiao Chen asked him to keep them from learning what had happened to Liu Gang.
• Xiao Chen gave Wang Lanhua five hundred taels and prepared to leave, but she followed him to the doorway and asked whether Gang-ge was already dead.

Xiao Chen told Wang Lanhua and Xiao Tian'er that Liu Gang had died defending Tai Xu Sect, then traveled toward Flowing Fire Mountain for his appointment with Huang Yelang. On the Flying Demon Ship, he heard the Huang Family was falsely claiming Huang Yelang had defeated the Demon Race’s fighters, and intervened when Lü Defeng defended him.

• Xiao Chen confessed that Liu Gang had died during the Mountain Kicking Tournament, and Wang Lanhua later told Xiao Tian'er the truth.
• Xiao Chen left the grieving mother and daughter and boarded a Flying Demon Ship bound for the Flowing Fire Mountain Range.
• Young cultivators aboard the ship repeated the Huang Family’s claim that Huang Yelang, not Xiao Chen, had killed the Demon Race’s Heavenly Prodigy Rank fighters.
• Lü Defeng confronted the cultivators for insulting Xiao Chen and declared that he had chosen Xiao Chen as his big brother after watching the battle recording.
• When a youth challenged Xiao Chen to judge whether the rumors were slander, Xiao Chen fired violet Sword Qi past his head and blasted open the clouds.
• The youth discovered Xiao Chen had shaved off all his hair and angrily demanded to know why he had attacked.