Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen defeated the black-robed commander of Black Mountain City and held him at swordpoint while condemning the Blacksun Dynasty’s invasion plans. A little girl’s faith in City Lord Ye sharpened Xiao Chen’s disgust with Ye Renxiong, and the chapter ended with Xiao Chen challenging Ye Renxiong to come out of Youfan City.

• Ye Renxiong considered handing Xiao Chen over to the Blacksun Dynasty to prevent a devastating battle, while Ye Family members argued over his decision and Ye Jin struggled against the formation imprisoning her.
• Xiao Chen fought the black-robed middle-aged commander to a standstill until the commander’s taunts drove him to unleash a powerful sword strike and knock away the man’s blade.
• Xiao Chen placed his sword against the commander’s neck and rejected threats that Black Mountain City’s twenty thousand Immortal Army soldiers would soon arrive.
• A little girl from Lingdao Village spoke up for Xiao Chen and insisted that City Lord Ye would save him, recalling Ye Renxiong’s kindness to her.
• Xiao Chen held back from killing the commander and shouted toward Youfan City, challenging Ye Renxiong to come out and talk.

Xiao Chen confronted City Lord Ye Renxiong over his collusion with the Blacksun Dynasty and the massacres of nearby villages, using Che Jiang’s confession to expose the truth to Youfan City’s citizens. As the furious crowd gathered, Che Jiang openly admitted to the killings, leaving the citizens ready to attack him.

• Xiao Chen summoned Ye Renxiong and questioned him about Blacksun soldiers crossing into Great Xia and the laws against invading and killing its people.
• Che Jiang admitted that he had led the slaughter of eight villages, and Xiao Chen accused Ye Renxiong of colluding with the Blacksun Dynasty.
• Xiao Chen’s words spread through Youfan City, and crowds broke through the gates to confront Ye Renxiong and the Blacksun soldiers.
• Ye Renxiong denied knowing about the Youfan Guard’s actions and claimed the village massacres were still under investigation.
• Xiao Chen prompted Che Jiang to repeat his confession, and Che Jiang admitted before the crowd that he had killed the villagers.
• The enraged citizens gathered to attack Che Jiang, while Ye Renxiong shouted that Che Jiang was speaking nonsense.

Xiao Chen killed Che Jiang after the Blacksun commander taunted him, and Ye Renxiong shut Youfan City’s gates with Xiao Chen and Lingdao Village’s people left outside. As the Black Mountain Army arrived, Xiao Chen refused to flee and prepared to stand with the villagers.

• Che Jiang threatened Youfan City with the approaching Black Mountain Army, but Xiao Chen cut off his head after Che Jiang insulted him.
• Most townsfolk supported Xiao Chen, while Ye Renxiong ordered everyone back into the city and left Xiao Chen and the Lingdao Village villagers outside.
• Ye Renxiong had the city gates closed despite townsfolk protesting that Xiao Chen and the villagers would be exposed to the enemy.
• The village chief urged Xiao Chen to escape, but Xiao Chen said he would guard the village and fight for Xia.
• The villagers heard the Black Mountain Army’s approaching hoofbeats and realized the army had arrived.

Xiao Chen confronted the twenty-thousand-strong Black Mountain Army after its commander, Ye De, discovered that Che Jiang and his men had been killed. When Ye De ordered the army to slaughter Lingdao Village, Xiao Chen drew a line before the villagers and stood alone to guard them.

• The Black Mountain Army charged toward Lingdao Village, frightening the villagers and trampling their spiritual fields.
• Ye De demanded to know where Che Jiang was, and his soldiers found Che Jiang and more than a dozen others dead.
• A Black Mountain Army soldier attacked an old villager, but Xiao Chen knocked away his saber and admitted that he had killed Che Jiang.
• Ye De confirmed that Xiao Chen's Sword Qi had killed Che Jiang and ordered his soldiers to slaughter Xiao Chen and the village.
• Xiao Chen drew a line of purple Sword Qi across the ground and stood before the villagers, challenging the Black Mountain Army to cross.

Xiao Chen chose to defend Lingdao Village from the Black Mountain Army, even as Ye Renxiong refused to send the Youfan Army to help. After Xiao Chen destroyed the army’s opening attack, he stood bloodied before its twenty thousand soldiers and dared them to cross the line again.

• Xiao Chen overcame his hesitation and resolved to protect the villagers as Ye De ordered the Black Mountain Army to attack.
• Ye Renxiong rejected his soldiers’ pleas to go out and help Xiao Chen, choosing instead to seal Youfan City and leave the villagers to die.
• Several hundred Black Mountain Army soldiers charged Xiao Chen and joined their power to unleash a massive golden blade.
• Xiao Chen shattered the golden blade with one sword strike and killed more than a dozen soldiers and their horses.
• Xiao Chen returned to the ground, raised his sword, and warned the twenty thousand Black Mountain Army soldiers that anyone who crossed the line would die.

Xiao Chen faced the Black Mountain Army to protect Lingdao Village, stunning the villagers and exposing the Youfan Army’s reluctance to fight. As twenty thousand Black Mountain Army soldiers charged, he unleashed Fire Lotus Blaze and began burning the attackers who approached him.

• Xiao Chen’s sword strike repelled the Black Mountain Army’s initial attack, and Lingdao Village’s residents hailed him as their savior.
• Youfan City’s residents mocked the Youfan Army, prompting its soldiers to demand that Ye Renxiong send them into battle.
• Ye Renxiong grew angry as Xiao Chen’s display undermined his authority, while Ye De ordered all twenty thousand Black Mountain Army soldiers to charge.
• Xiao Chen decided to stand his ground and used Fire Lotus Blaze, surrounding himself with nearly a hundred enormous flame lotuses.
• The Divine Fire consumed soldiers who drew near, melting their golden aura and burning their bodies to ash.

Xiao Chen repeatedly used Fire Lotus Blaze to repel the Black Mountain Army, despite the immense toll it took on his Source Energy. After five activations left him exhausted, he considered cultivating the Indestructible Diamond Sutra as the army prepared to attack again.

• Xiao Chen extinguished Fire Lotus Blaze after driving the Black Mountain Army back, and Ye De ordered his soldiers to charge when he believed the Divine Fire was spent.
• Xiao Chen bluffed by shouting "Fire Lotus Blaze," making the army retreat before he dispersed the fire gathering within him.
• When the Black Mountain Army charged again, Xiao Chen ignited Fire Lotus Blaze and burned several hundred soldiers, then repelled further charges with repeated uses of the technique.
• After five activations, Xiao Chen ran out of strength and thought about cultivating the Indestructible Diamond Sutra to protect himself from the approaching army.

Xiao Chen held off the Black Mountain Army outside Youfan City with Divine Fire, but Yue Shanqi and Wen Long arrived and revealed themselves as overwhelming opponents. Ye Renxiong confronted them and declared that Xiao Chen came from the mortal world, had no Immortal Register, and was unrelated to Youfan City, leaving Ye De demanding to know why he had risked his life for the villagers.

• Xiao Chen's Divine Fire frightened the Black Mountain Army into refusing Ye De's orders to charge, so Ye De called for the concealed experts to help.
• Yue Shanqi and Wen Long appeared, and Wen Long struck Xiao Chen's soul with an eye technique, injuring him but failing to kill him.
• Ye Renxiong left Youfan City's walls to face the two experts as the city gates opened and the Youfan Army and civilians poured out.
• Yue Shanqi threatened to destroy Youfan City, but Ye Renxiong claimed Xiao Chen was from the mortal world and had no connection to the city.
• Xiao Chen confirmed he had no Immortal Register and had only entered the Outer Realm a few days earlier, prompting Ye De to demand why he had fought for the villagers.

Xiao Chen refused Yue Shanqi’s offer to take him as a disciple while Ye Renxiong and Wen Long negotiated over Youfan City’s people and wealth. As hundreds of thousands of civilians were gathered to be handed over, Xiao Chen prepared to use his Sword Pill and heard his master urge him to follow his heart.

• Yue Shanqi recognized Xiao Chen as a powerful newcomer from the secular world and offered to take him as a disciple, but Xiao Chen refused, sensing Yue Shanqi’s malice.
• Wen Long threatened to destroy Youfan City unless Ye Renxiong handed over half its people and wealth; Ye Renxiong consulted the city’s Lineage leaders.
• The city leaders agreed to surrender half the residents, and Ye Renxiong’s subordinates selected civilians while Wen Long demanded more young and able-bodied prisoners.
• Xiao Chen watched the civilians’ despair, produced his Sword Pill, and heard his master tell him to follow his heart.
• Youfan Guards gathered several hundred thousand civilians as Yue Shanqi again asked Xiao Chen whether he would become his disciple.

Xiao Chen rejected Yue Shanqi’s offer to become his disciple and faced the ultimate powerhouse’s attack with the Sword Pill. After Xiao Chen invited his master to descend into the Mortal World, the Sword Pill released a river of blood light that shattered Yue Shanqi’s lightning hand and rose into the heavens, signaling that a powerful figure might appear.

• Xiao Chen told Yue Shanqi that he was unworthy of becoming his master, provoking Yue Shanqi to attack him.
• Xiao Chen channeled Source Energy into the Sword Pill, whose blood waves shattered Yue Shanqi’s lightning and protected him from harm.
• Yue Shanqi formed an enormous hand of lightning and sent it crashing toward Xiao Chen and Lingdao Village.
• Xiao Chen shouted, “This disciple, Xiao Chen, respectfully invites Master to descend into the Mortal World!” and the Sword Pill shattered.
• The Sword Pill’s blood light blasted apart Yue Shanqi’s lightning hand and surged toward the ninth heaven, while Ye De ordered the Black Mountain Army to prepare for battle.

Ji Wushang appeared to save Xiao Chen and lent him enough power to reach the First-Level King Realm. Xiao Chen killed Wen Long with a single sword strike, leaving the remaining Supreme Powerhouses and onlookers stunned.

• Ji Wushang arrived as an incarnation and entered Xiao Chen’s body, lending him his strength while leaving Xiao Chen in control.
• Xiao Chen’s cultivation surged to the First-Level King Realm, and Ji Wushang told him he was invincible in this world.
• Yunlong released the evil spirits Wen Long had enslaved through Blood Sacrifice and attacked Xiao Chen with them.
• Xiao Chen asked Ji Wushang how to save the spirits, then learned that killing Wen Long would free them to enter the Reincarnation Cycle.
• Xiao Chen struck Wen Long with the Dragon Slayer Sword, overcoming his Supreme Powerhouse strength with Ji Wushang’s power of laws and killing him.
• Wen Long’s head fell to the ground, and the crowd fell silent at the death of a Supreme Powerhouse.

Xiao Chen defeated Wen Long and Yue Shanqi, freed the enslaved ghosts, and slaughtered the Black Mountain Army after refusing compensation for the villages they had destroyed. He confronted Ye Renxiong, but paused when Ye Jin arrived and pleaded for her father’s life.

• Xiao Chen killed Wen Long with one sword, breaking the talismans that controlled the ghosts and allowing them to reincarnate.
• Yue Shanqi offered compensation for the eight villages his army had slaughtered, but Xiao Chen rejected it and killed him.
• Xiao Chen wiped out the twenty thousand Black Mountain Army soldiers, then turned to punish Ye Renxiong for betraying his people.
• Ye Jin arrived and asked Xiao Chen to spare her father, explaining how devotedly Ye Renxiong had raised her.
• Xiao Chen fell silent after hearing Ye Jin’s plea.

Xiao Chen spared Ye Renxiong’s life but crippled his cultivation, then healed Niuer’s scar and the injured villagers. After leaving, Ji Wushang warned Xiao Chen that a world-destroying catastrophe might soon threaten the Three Realms before his avatar dissipated.

• Ye Jin pleaded for Ye Renxiong, and Xiao Chen said he would spare her father’s life.
• Niuer questioned whether the villagers killed by Ye Renxiong had died for nothing, and Xiao Chen healed her scar and the villagers’ wounds.
• Xiao Chen declared that he would cripple Ye Renxiong’s cultivation, then pierced his dantian with Sword Qi.
• Xiao Chen left Ye Jin and the villagers, and Ji Wushang emerged from his body in a distant forest.
• Ji Wushang warned Xiao Chen of a coming catastrophe and said he would wait for him in the God Realm before dissipating.

After learning about the coming calamity and his need for an Immortal Register, Xiao Chen returned to Youfan City while Liu Xinghai pursued him to avenge Liu Hua. Liu Xinghai arrived to find thousands of Black Mountain Army corpses outside the city, while Ye Renxiong sat powerless after losing his cultivation.

• Xiao Chen decided to ask Ye Jin for a temporary Immortal Register so he would not be deported from the Outer Realm.
• Liu Xinghai learned that Xiao Chen had returned to Youfan City and rode there with Tiger Immortal Sect experts, vowing to kill him.
• Liu Xinghai and his men smelled a growing stench of blood and heard that the Blacksun Dynasty had been massacring villages nearby.
• Ye Renxiong sat outside Youfan City, lamenting that Xiao Chen had taken away the cultivation he had built over a hundred years, while Ye Jin told him to accept his spared life.
• Liu Xinghai's group reached the city and found thousands of dead cultivators in Black Mountain Army armor, leaving them stunned by the scale of the slaughter.

Liu Xinghai led Tiger Immortal Sect fighters toward Youfan City to demand Chen Xiao, but learned that Chen Xiao’s master had annihilated the Black Mountain Army and defeated three supreme powerhouses. The group was left shaken by the report that the master was an Immortal, and Liu Xinghai trembled as he realized the master had acted only through an avatar.

• Liu Xinghai and his companions found Black Mountain Army corpses split apart by sword strikes, with no Youfan Army dead, and suspected a peerless Sword Dao master had intervened.
• Despite his companions’ objections, Liu Xinghai pressed on to Youfan City, where he saw Ye Renxiong crippled and demanded that Ye Jin bring out Chen Xiao.
• Liu Xinghai spotted the corpses of Wen Long and Yue Shanqi and asked Ye Renxiong what had happened, but Ye Renxiong remained silent.
• A city resident told the Tiger Immortal Sect group that Chen Xiao’s master had descended and wiped out the attackers.
• The resident said the master had acted through an avatar and was said to be an Immortal, leaving Liu Xinghai and the others terrified.

Xiao Chen bluffed Liu Xinghai into believing a True Immortal backed him, prompting Liu Xinghai to offer him spirit stones and retreat. Ye Jin then helped Xiao Chen obtain a temporary Immortal Register, while a powerful figure from the Fortune Hall arrived to investigate the devastation in Youfan City.

• Xiao Chen pretended to have a powerful immortal master, and Liu Xinghai gave him 120 High-Grade Spirit Stones to settle their supposed misunderstanding.
• Liu Xinghai struck down the middle-aged man riding the rat for his foolish questions and ordered the investigation into Liu Hua's death suspended.
• Xiao Chen asked Ye Jin to help him get a temporary Immortal Register, then followed her into Youfan City as its residents welcomed him.
• Ye Jin arranged a black wooden temporary Immortal Register engraved with Chen Xiao for him through her connections at the City Lord's Manor.
• A great figure from the Fortune Hall arrived in Youfan City, saw the corpses and two supreme powerhouses, and asked who had caused the destruction.

After the battle in Youfan City became an unsolved case, Xiao Chen cultivated the Diamond section of the Indestructible Diamond Sutra in the Ye Family residence. He formed Diamond Armor and planned to go to Wankun City in half a month to seek an Immortal Register.

• Ye Jin concealed the truth about the battle, and rumors spread that an unknown expert had slain twenty thousand Immortal Army soldiers and two supreme powerhouses.
• Xiao Chen settled into a secluded courtyard in the City Lord's Residence and began cultivating in its secret chamber.
• Xiao Chen studied the Diamond section and quickly reached beginner mastery, astonishing Qiongqi with his body-cultivation aptitude.
• Xiao Chen cleansed a Fallen Immortal Stone with the Dust Cleansing Sutra and absorbed its energy to strengthen his body.
• Xiao Chen used up his spirit stones to form Diamond Armor, then tested it against his Sword Qi and found it highly resistant to damage.
• Xiao Chen resolved to keep cultivating and travel to Wankun City in half a month to seek an Immortal Register.

After stabilizing his Diamond Realm, Xiao Chen learned that the Blacksun Dynasty had invaded Great Xia and decided to defend the country after joining a sect. He reached Wankun City with Qian Wandai for recruitment, where they learned about the three organizations seeking disciples.

• Xiao Chen revealed his Indestructible Diamond Sutra cultivation to Ye Jin, who told him that Great Xia was under attack and that several cities had fallen.
• Xiao Chen resolved to defend Great Xia after joining a sect and obtaining an Immortal Register, then ran to Wankun City.
• Xiao Chen reunited with Qian Wandai, who explained that he had escaped the forbidden ground and bought a temporary Immortal Register.
• Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai entered Wankun City, faced scorn over their temporary registers, and left an expensive restaurant after balking at its prices.
• At a roadside noodle stall, Qian Wandai paid the waiter for information about the Myriad Swords Sect, Mighty Warrior Academy, and Earthen Palace and their different cultivation paths.

Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai learned about the fierce sect and academy assessments and made their way to the crowded Wankun Training Grounds. There, they saw the many formidable competitors and heard conflicting rumors about Huang Yingying.

• The waiter told Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai that the Blacksun Dynasty had been invaded, prompting Fortune Hall to offer rewards for defenders and drawing many geniuses to the assessments.
• Xiao Chen learned that Huang Yingying was a Sword Dao prodigy who had come to spar with Myriad Swords Sect experts and seek a Master.
• Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai left for the Wankun Training Grounds, where passersby mocked them for admiring the city's patrol beasts and guards treated them with disdain.
• The two entered the packed grounds and saw nearly a hundred thousand competitors vying for only several dozen places in the sects and academies.
• Competitors discussed formidable body cultivators, including Yin Zhuang, and praised Huang Yingying's swordsmanship while debating her reputation.
• Xiao Chen and Qian Wandai looked toward Huang Yingying as people described her beauty and repeated rumors that she stole other immortal maidens' romances.

At the examination, Huang Yingying’s flirtatious glance at Xiao Chen made the other young men jealous, while she and her friend discussed her brother Huang Yelang’s encounter with a mortal named Xiao Chen. The three academy and sect instructors arrived and began their recruitment trials, with Zhang Nianfeng inviting candidates to test their body-refinement skills for Mighty Warrior Academy.

• Qian Wandai admired Huang Yingying, and she noticed Xiao Chen staring at her and smiled at him.
• The young men in the arena grew hostile toward Xiao Chen after Huang Yingying singled him out, while Qian Wandai realized she had not been looking at him.
• Huang Yingying told Xiuxiu she had noticed Xiao Chen, and the two discussed Huang Yelang’s reported setback against a mortal named Xiao Chen.
• Yue Wentian, Lin Lanhua, and Zhang Nianfeng arrived to oversee the examination and introduced their respective organizations.
• Zhang Nianfeng explained the value of body refinement and called on candidates to take the Mighty Warrior Academy test, worrying that the academy might again find no promising recruits.