Chapter Summaries

Su Yi and his companions met Zhang Yuntao at Cloud Heaven Divine Palace, where Zhang looked down on Su and mocked his abilities. After Zhang demanded that Su prove himself, Su lost patience and attacked him.

• Zhang Yuntao greeted Qing Ya and Ling Yunhe, but treated Su Yi, Yuan Heng, and Bai Wenqing with condescension because they came from Great Zhou.
• Su Yi gave Yuan Heng a Hundred Treasures Pouch and sent him and Bai Wenqing into the city to sell its contents for spirit stones.
• Zhang Yuntao assumed Su Yi hoped to enter Cloud Heaven Divine Palace and insisted that its assessments admitted only exceptional cultivators.
• Su Yi told Zhang Yuntao he had no interest in joining the palace and warned him to stop speaking about him; Ling Yunhe cautioned Zhang not to provoke Su.
• Zhang Yuntao rose in anger and challenged Su Yi to demonstrate the difference between a firefly and the sun and moon, so Su Yi opened his eyes and attacked.

Su Yi fought Zhang Yuntao, an elder of the Cloud Heaven Divine Palace, and revealed overwhelming strength despite his lower cultivation. After defeating Zhang Yuntao with a sword strike, Su Yi addressed someone watching nearby.

• Su Yi revealed his formidable sword aura, startling Ling Yunhe, Qing Ya, and Ren Youyou.
• Zhang Yuntao attacked Su Yi with a golden fist, but Su Yi shattered it with a sword-finger strike.
• Zhang Yuntao used his Heaven Shaker Strike, and Su Yi answered with Chop Mountains and Seas from the Great Freedom Sword Scripture.
• Zhang Yuntao summoned his Golden Flame Supreme Yang Blade and clashed with Su Yi's sword.
• The clash left Zhang Yuntao badly injured and collapsed while Su Yi remained untouched.
• Su Yi looked toward a nearby spot and asked whether the hidden observer had seen enough.

Wen Xinzhao arrived after Su Yi defeated Zhang Yuntao and demonstrated her formidable swordsmanship. When Su Yi challenged her to block his unpowered sword finger, she realized she could not stop it and acknowledged the gap between their skills.

• Wen Xinzhao emerged from the ruins and greeted Qing Ya and Ling Yunhe.
• Wen Xinzhao comforted Zhang Yuntao, who admitted his defeat and left.
• Wen Xinzhao demonstrated her swordsmanship by destroying a patch of clouds with a blade of violet lightning.
• Su Yi called Wen Xinzhao's swordsmanship ordinary and challenged her to block his sword finger.
• Wen Xinzhao failed to find a way to counter Su Yi's strike and thanked him for his guidance.

After Su Yi defeated Zhang Yuntao, Wen Xinzhao invited him inside and sought his guidance on her swordsmanship, while Huo Yunsheng and Qian Tianlong learned that Su Yi had overwhelmed their sect’s elder. The chapter ended with Huo Yunsheng seeing Wen Xinzhao defer to Su Yi and reacting with jealousy.

• Wen Xinzhao admitted Su Yi’s swordsmanship surpassed hers and invited him to explain the flaws in her technique.
• Su Yi identified three flaws in Wen Xinzhao’s swordsmanship and advised her to deepen her understanding of lightning’s life-giving aspect.
• Qing Ya complained that Wen Xinzhao was ignoring her and Ling Yunhe, while Ling Yunhe worried that Wen Xinzhao was becoming captivated by Su Yi.
• Huo Yunsheng, Qian Tianlong, and Sun Feng returned after arranging for the Bitter Sea assassin Bone Stripper to kill Su Yi after the Spirit Tune Assembly.
• Ren Youyou told the three men that Su Yi had defeated Zhang Yuntao in two strikes, prompting Qian Tianlong to worry about the inaccurate information given to Bitter Sea.
• Huo Yunsheng entered the hall, saw Wen Xinzhao pouring wine for Su Yi and listening to his instruction, and grew jealous and furious.

Su Yi agreed to guide Wen Xinzhao in the Sword Dao and learned that a Demonic Womb would be auctioned at the Spirit Tune Assembly, which he planned to attend. Meanwhile, a black-gowned woman and the Nie Feng Holy Son discussed Gu Cangning’s refusal to cooperate with them.

• Huo Yunsheng tried to speak with Wen Xinzhao, but she rebuked him for interrupting her discussion of the Sword Dao with Su Yi.
• Su Yi offered to guide Wen Xinzhao, and she gladly accepted despite Ling Yunhe’s worries about Cloud Heaven Divine Palace.
• Yuan Heng reported the group’s spirit-stone exchange and news that a suspected Demonic Womb would be auctioned at the Spirit Tune Assembly.
• Su Yi explained the rarity and potential of Demonic Wombs, then agreed to attend the assembly with Wen Xinzhao and the others.
• In an inn, a black-gowned woman told the Nie Feng Holy Son that Gu Cangning refused to cooperate with them, and he questioned her interest in him.

The Black Skirt Woman planned to capture Wen Xinzhao alive after the Spirit Tune Assembly, while Huo Yunsheng hired an assassin to kill Su Yi. As the assembly began, Su Yi arrived with Wen Xinzhao, drawing the attention of his enemies and Gu Cangning.

• The Black Skirt Woman told Nie Feng Holy Son she would target Wen Xinzhao after the assembly and might help him kill Su Yi afterward.
• Gu Cangning ordered Lan Shang to invite Grandma to the assembly to inspect the ancient treasures.
• Huo Yunsheng told Old Wang that Su Yi had defeated Zhang Yuntao, then hired the assassin Boatman using a Huo Family jade pendant.
• On the morning of the Spirit Tune Assembly, Su Yi and the Cloud Heaven Divine Palace group arrived at Nine Cauldrons Pavilion, where Wen Xinzhao drew the crowd's attention.
• Nie Feng Holy Son recognized Su Yi, but the Black Skirt Woman told him to wait until the assembly ended before acting against him.
• Gu Cangning saw Su Yi arrive and told Grandma he hoped to avoid fighting him to the death.

Su Yi attended the Spirit Tune Assembly auction, ignored the treasures on offer, and spent thirty sixth-grade spirit stones to repair his rattan chair with Dragon Bone Vine. When an ancient animal skin scroll containing an incomplete Spirit Path inheritance went up for auction, its owner demanded a way to repair a Soul Body, and Su Yi recognized an opportunity to obtain it.

• Xiang Yong auctioned a fragment of the Wandering Sky Sparrow's Life Bone, which a bidder won for one hundred and thirty sixth-grade spirit stones.
• Huo Yunsheng offered to lend Su Yi money, but Wen Xinzhao also offered to help him bid; Su Yi said none of the treasures had interested him so far.
• Su Yi had Yuan Heng buy a segment of Dragon Bone Vine for thirty sixth-grade spirit stones, then carved it into fibers and used it to mend his rattan chair.
• Xiang Yong presented an animal skin scroll containing the Soaring Serpent Hundred Refinements Art, an incomplete Spirit Path inheritance, and announced that its owner wanted a method to repair a Soul Body.
• The crowd fell silent because no one seemed able to meet the owner's demand, while Su Yi smiled after noticing that the animal skin was unusual.

At the Spirit Tune Assembly auction, Su Yi used a secret art to obtain an ancient Animal Skin Scroll made from Xun Spirit Void Devouring Beast hide. The final item, a sealed demonic fetus whose heartbeat suggested it was nearing awakening, was about to be revealed when Su Yi noticed something strange about the Snake-Shaped Ruyi used to open it.

• Wen Xinzhao apologized that she could not help repair a Soul Body, but Su Yi told Yuan Heng to bid for the Animal Skin Scroll anyway.
• Su Yi exchanged a secret art for the scroll, and the Old Woman recognized the hide as belonging to a Xun Spirit Void Devouring Beast.
• Su Yi explained that the hide's remaining Great Dao traces mattered more to him than the incomplete Spirit Dao inheritance written on it.
• Gu Cangning won a Fire Avoidance Spirit Pearl, while Huo Yunsheng spent Azure Gold Star Pattern Iron to obtain an ancient sword fragment that Su Yi judged nearly worthless.
• Xiang Yong presented a sealed demonic fetus whose powerful heartbeat shook the hall, and Gu Cangning and Nie Feng Holy Son both set their sights on it.
• Xiang Yong activated a Snake-Shaped Ruyi to open the Bronze Box, and Su Yi suddenly narrowed his eyes.

A demonic fetus unleashed a sound that knocked out nearly everyone at the Spirit Tune Assembly, revealing that the Black Skirt Woman had staged the auction as a trap. Su Yi remained conscious, killed Nie Feng Holy Son, and confronted the Black Skirt Woman after she resealed the fetus.

• The demon fetus's eerie pounding knocked Xiang Yong, Wen Xinzhao, Gu Cangning, and most of the assembly unconscious, while Su Yi remained awake.
• The Black Skirt Woman revealed that she had used the demon fetus and the Spirit Tune Assembly to set a trap, then ordered Nie Feng Holy Son to capture Wen Xinzhao.
• Nie Feng Holy Son found Su Yi apparently unconscious, but Su Yi woke and killed him with the Godslayer Little Sword.
• The Black Skirt Woman suppressed the demon fetus with the blood-colored lotus lantern and a secret talisman, sealing it for the time being.
• Su Yi approached the Black Skirt Woman and warned that her talismans could suppress the demon fetus for only three more months, prompting her to ready herself against him.

Su Yi defeated the Black Skirt Woman but spared her because he owed the Ghost Snake Clan, then sealed the demonic fetus in a box. After Gu Cangning and the old woman emerged, they asked to buy it, and Su Yi challenged whether they would surrender such a treasure themselves.

• Su Yi told the Black Skirt Woman that Nie Feng was dead and demanded she leave the demonic fetus behind.
• The Black Skirt Woman attacked Su Yi with her Blood Spirit Profound Charm Art, but he effortlessly stopped her and let her leave.
• Su Yi explained that sparing her repaid a debt to the Ghost Snake Clan, recalling its first empress, Ye Yu.
• Su Yi used a Spirit Restriction Imperial Decree to seal the Bronze Box and discovered a powerful being inside the demonic fetus.
• Gu Cangning and the old woman thanked Su Yi, then asked to trade for the demonic fetus, and Su Yi questioned whether they would give up such a treasure themselves.

Su Yi saved Wen Xinzhao and the other guests from Xuan Zhi’s trap at the Spirit Tune Assembly, then left as the story of his deeds spread through Spirit Tune City. Huo Yunsheng deliberately fueled the rumors to draw the assassins of Bitter Sea toward Su Yi, while Old Wang asked the gray-robed Boatman what he thought of the young man.

• Gu Cangning left with his grandmother for Nine Cauldrons City after she praised Su Yi as a peerless talent, though she privately sensed something terrifying about him.
• Wen Xinzhao awakened, learned that Xuan Zhi’s Spirit Tune Assembly had been a trap, and thanked Su Yi, who calmly retrieved his rattan chair.
• Yuan Heng and the others awoke, learned Su Yi had saved them, and left with him after Yuan Heng took Nie Feng Holy Son’s spoils.
• Huo Yunsheng ordered Qian Tianlong to spread news that Su Yi had killed Nie Feng and thwarted Xuan Zhi, hoping to alert the assassins of Bitter Sea to Su Yi’s strength.
• News of Su Yi’s actions spread across Spirit Tune City, and Old Wang asked the gray-robed Boatman what he thought of Su Yi.

Su Yi left Spirit Tune City for Nine Cauldrons City after gaining a hide bearing traces of the Wind Dao, while news of his deeds spread and drew the attention of enemies. The chapter ended with Blood Owl preparing to pursue him and avenge Nie Feng Holy Son.

• The gray-robed young man left YongAn Shop to undertake a dangerous operation, promising Old Wang he would return within ten days or leave him the remaining wine.
• Su Yi studied the Xun Spirit Void Devouring Beast hide and planned to travel to Nine Cauldrons City, possibly to attend the LanTai Dharma Assembly and seek a Xumi Talisman.
• Ling Yunhe bid farewell to Su Yi and returned to Great Qi, while Su Yi departed Spirit Tune City aboard Cloud Heaven Divine Palace’s treasure ship with Yuan Heng and Bai Wenqing.
• News that Su Yi had slain Nie Feng Holy Son and taken the demonic fetus spread across Great Xia, prompting Miao Hong True Person to leave Qing Yi Dao Sect to seek revenge.
• Xuan Zhi Saintess reported to the Bronze Masked man that Su Yi had spared her because he owed something to her Ghost Snake Clan.
• The Bronze Masked man sent Blood Owl, Nie Feng’s Dao Protector, to avenge Nie Feng and pursue the demonic fetus.

Su Yi reached the late stage of the Grain Avoidance Realm and agreed to join Wen Xinzhao’s group at a banquet hosted by the Azure Field Zuo Clan. At the banquet, the Zuo Clan presented Spirit Source Stones for the guests to choose, while Su Yi and his companions were largely ignored.

• Su Yi completed his breakthrough to the late stage of the Grain Avoidance Realm and assessed his strength against Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators.
• Yuan Heng told Su Yi that Wen Xinzhao’s group planned to visit the Azure Field Zuo Clan, and Su Yi agreed to go in hopes of obtaining spiritual jade for refining talismans.
• At the banquet, Zuo Xinghe asked Zhang Yuntao about Su Yi and his companions, and Zhang Yuntao described them as fellow travelers rather than Cloud Heaven Divine Palace inheritors.
• Huo Yunsheng and other Cloud Heaven Divine Palace guests downplayed Su Yi’s group, prompting the Zuo Clan’s guests to leave Su Yi, Yuan Heng, and Bai Wenqing out of the festivities.
• Zuo Xinghe presented Spirit Source Stones and invited each guest to choose one for stone gambling.

At the Zuo clan’s stone-gambling gathering, guests uncovered several valuable spirit jades while Su Yi was conspicuously given colder treatment than the others. Su Yi chose stones for himself and Yuan Heng and Bai Wenqing, and the chapter ended as his first stone began to reveal a brilliant crimson treasure.

• Zuo Xinghe guided Zhang Yuntao to a Spirit Source Stone that contained Golden Spotted Tiger Fiend Jade, while Wen Xinzhao chose an Azure Cloud Ink Jade on her own.
• Huo Yunsheng and Qian Tianlong and Sun Feng opened empty stones, while Ren Youyou found Scarlet Jade Spirit Crystal in the stone Zuo Xinghe had indicated to Wen Xinzhao.
• Qing Ya uncovered a rare Golden Silk Fire Cloud Jade, drawing everyone’s attention and leading Wen Xinzhao to point out that Su Yi had been overlooked.
• Zuo Xinghe offered Su Yi no guidance, and Su Yi selected a stone that the Zuo clan figures believed was empty.
• Su Yi asked to choose stones for Yuan Heng and Bai Wenqing, then picked two that the Zuo clan figures recognized as containing spirit jade.
• Su Yi opened the first stone he had selected for Yuan Heng, and a brilliant crimson light burst out.

Su Yi uncovered two precious spirit jades and a Jade Seed Spirit Cocoon while opening Spirit Source Stones at the Zuo Clan’s venue. After learning the cocoon could become a butterfly that located spirit jade veins, Zuo Xinghe agreed to Su Yi’s demanding terms to buy it.

• Su Yi cut open a Fire Haze Cloud Sky Jade and an Azure Marrow Sea Soul Jade, stunning the assembled guests and vexing Zuo Xinghe and the Zuo Clan dignitaries.
• When Su Yi’s own Spirit Source Stone showed no spiritual light, Huo Yunsheng mocked him, but Zuo Xinghe recognized the Jade Seed Spirit Cocoon hidden inside.
• Zuo Xinghe explained that a Jade Seed Spirit Butterfly could find spirit jade veins and had helped the Zuo Clan rise to power.
• Zuo Xinghe and the Zuo Clan dignitaries pleaded to buy the cocoon, and Su Yi offered it in exchange for a large cache of resources.
• Su Yi gave Zuo Xinghe his terms, and Zuo Xinghe accepted, promising to prepare everything by the next day.

Su Yi confronted the Zuo Clan after they broke their agreement and offered him only a fraction of the promised treasures. As the clan threatened him, the Boatman ambushed him, but Su Yi survived and pursued the assassin, leaving the Zuo Clan fearful of his return.

• Su Yi finished cultivating the Supreme Void Zhenyuan Scripture and went to the Council Great Hall to exchange the Jade Seed Spirit Cocoon.
• Zuo Yunchao verified the cocoon, but Zuo Xinghe offered Su Yi only a hundred sixth-grade spirit stones instead of the promised treasures.
• Zuo Xinghe revealed that the Zuo Clan had learned about Su Yi from Huo Yunsheng and threatened him, while offering him a way out if he accepted their reduced price.
• The Boatman fired a silver arrow at Su Yi, but Su Yi dodged the first attack and shattered a barrage of arrows with the Xuanwu Sword.
• Su Yi rushed out to pursue the Boatman and promised to return to settle the score with the Zuo Clan.
• Zhang Yuntao, Huo Yunsheng, Wen Xinzhao, Yuan Heng, and the others arrived, and Huo Yunsheng, Qian Tianlong, and Sun Feng were stunned that the Boatman had failed.

Su Yi pursued a gray-robed assassin through the wilderness and effortlessly destroyed the traps prepared to kill him. He finally lost interest in the chase and attacked the fleeing assassin with the Great Freedom Sword Scripture.

• Su Yi used the Royal Flowing Escape Technique to catch up with the gray-robed young man, who refused to surrender and fled into a forest.
• Su Yi sensed and avoided a flaming-arrow formation, then followed the assassin through the forest.
• At a mountain gorge, Su Yi used his Earth Dao Rhyme to stop falling boulders and collapse the peaks, forcing the assassin out of his hiding place.
• Su Yi shattered a river whirlpool and a rain of white light, then struck the assassin’s next hiding place with Sword Qi.
• The gray-robed young man abandoned his assassination attempt and fled, but Su Yi pursued him with the Great Freedom Sword Scripture—Wander the Ten Directions.

Su Yi defeated and killed the gray-robed assassin, then returned to the Zuo residence, where the Zuo Clan and its guests had been anxiously awaiting news. His arrival left the hall stunned, with the Zuo Clan facing the consequences of its cooperation with the assassin.

• The gray-robed assassin unleashed talismans and a forbidden escape art, but Su Yi overwhelmed his defenses and cut him down with the Xuanwu Sword.
• Su Yi found nothing useful on the assassin and concluded that the assassination was tied to the Zuo Clan.
• At the Zuo residence, Zuo Xinghe and the Zuo Clan elders debated how to respond if Su Yi returned alive, while Wen Xinzhao and the others suspected the clan's involvement.
• Zuo Xinghe decided that the Zuo Clan would admit defeat if Su Yi came back, and Qing Ya announced that Su Yi had returned.
• Su Yi arrived at the main hall, leaving everyone inside silent and shaken.

Su Yi confronted Zuo Xinghe over the Zuo Clan’s role in the Boatman’s assassination attempt and demanded compensation to spare them. The Zuo Clan offered a mysterious jade in place of part of the payment, and Su Yi recognized it as a peerless treasure.

• Zuo Xinghe confessed that the Boatman had coerced him into helping kill Su Yi, and he offered the Zuo Clan’s wealth to make amends.
• Su Yi demanded five times the original price to spare the people in the hall, and killed Zuo Yunchao when he invoked the Zuo Clan’s powerful ally.
• Zuo Xinghe asked for more time to gather the payment, and Su Yi allowed the clan to make up the shortfall with other treasures.
• Zuo Xinghe presented a mysterious jade that the Zuo Clan had found in a spiritual vein, and Su Yi agreed to take it while requiring them to provide the treasure for the Jade Seed Spirit Cocoon transaction.

Su Yi traded the Zuo Clan’s Jade Seed Spirit Cocoon for the mysterious jade stone, which he recognized as a priceless Innate Dao Seed, and left the clan after warning them against seeking revenge. Aboard the treasure ship, he told Wen Xinzhao that the person who hired the Boatman was on board and asked her for help.

• Su Yi accepted the Zuo Clan’s payment for the Jade Seed Spirit Cocoon and exchanged it for their mysterious jade stone.
• Su Yi left the Zuo Clan, while Zuo Xinghe rejected his elders’ calls for revenge and warned that the clan could not afford another calamity.
• Su Yi examined the jade stone aboard the treasure ship and recognized it as an Innate Dao Seed that could grow into a divine object or weapon.
• Su Yi reflected that the Nine Hells Sword could help him nurture the Innate Dao Seed to fruition within ten years once he reached the Spirit Dao path.
• Su Yi told Wen Xinzhao that the person who hired the Boatman was aboard the treasure ship and asked her for a favor.