Chapter Summaries

Su Yi arrived at Cloud Heaven Divine Mountain to take Wen Xinzhao away and faced Dongguo Feng, a formidable sword cultivator seeking vengeance for his younger brother. As the two met above the sea of clouds, Dongguo Feng unleashed his sword intent and the duel began.

• Su Yi told Yu Jiuzhen he would wait in the sea of clouds and take Wen Xinzhao away after his battle with Dongguo Feng.
• Yu Jiuzhen explained that Wen Xinzhao had chosen to stay because she worried about Su Yi, while onlookers realized they had mistaken Su Yi for an ordinary cultivator.
• Dongguo Feng set aside his meditation, took up the Killing Heart Sword, and went to meet Su Yi above the clouds.
• Dongguo Feng introduced himself and declared that their duel would settle his revenge for Dongguo Yun and end the grudge between the Dongguo Clan and Su Yi.
• Su Yi praised the name of Dongguo Feng's sword but refused to draw his own, saying Dongguo Feng would have to prove worthy of it.
• Dongguo Feng unleashed his chilling sword intent, shaking the sea of clouds and beginning the duel.

Su Yi faced Dongguo Feng at Cloud Heaven Divine Mountain, where the young sword cultivator revealed his formidable sword attainments and unleashed his full power. Su Yi countered Dongguo Feng’s finest strike with a casual blow, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Dongguo Feng advanced with overwhelming sword intent, and Su Yi judged his skill worthy of attention.
• Dongguo Feng’s first sword strike split apart before reaching Su Yi, who dissolved it with a flash of Sword Qi.
• Dongguo Feng revealed his true sword might, and Su Yi praised his attainments but said they still were not enough to make him draw his sword.
• Dongguo Feng charged with his Fire Tree Silver Flower Illuminates the Nine Heavens technique, summoning tens of thousands of sword gleams.
• Su Yi unleashed his battle intent and struck the void, shattering Dongguo Feng’s sword strike and stunning everyone on Cloud Heaven Divine Mountain.

Su Yi effortlessly countered Dongguo Feng’s sword techniques, revealing a strength and insight that stunned the spectators. Unable to defeat Su Yi through their initial clash, Dongguo Feng unleashed his innate True Blood of Heavenly Demon and charged again beneath a spreading darkness.

• Su Yi shattered Dongguo Feng’s Star Bridge Iron Chain Restricting Ten Directions with a precise strike that found the move’s flaw.
• Su Yi and Dongguo Feng exchanged more than a hundred blows, with Su Yi dismantling Dongguo Feng’s attacks while fighting barehanded.
• Dongguo Feng declared that he would fight to the death and use every method to kill Su Yi.
• Dongguo Feng awakened his innate True Blood of Heavenly Demon, transforming as his Dark Night Power overwhelmed the surroundings.
• Dongguo Feng charged Su Yi with his sword as darkness spread across the sky.

Su Yi battled Dongguo Feng beneath a dark-night domain, revealing a vast advantage in Sword Dao despite Dongguo Feng’s desperate resistance. After two of the promised three moves, Dongguo Feng was badly wounded, and Su Yi prepared to deliver the final move.

• Dongguo Feng unleashed his dark-night power and Heavenly Demon Ying Zhao phantom, but Su Yi used the Zhou Tian Treasure Mirror to see through the darkness and shattered his attack with the Small Five Elements Sword Seal.
• Dongguo Feng charged forward without fear of death, and Su Yi said the victor would be decided within three moves.
• Su Yi’s first sword strike shattered the dark-night domain and blasted Dongguo Feng backward, shocking the audience and the Dongguo Clan experts.
• Su Yi struck with his second move, a sword bearing the forces of yin and yang and the momentum of heaven and earth.
• Dongguo Feng met the second strike head-on and was sent flying, coughing blood and suffering grievous injuries as the Dongguo Clan experts cried out in alarm.

Su Yi defeated Dongguo Feng with a seemingly simple sword strike but stopped the attack before killing him, sparing the sword-obsessed rival despite their blood feud. As the duel ended, the Dongguo Clan’s powerful Great Elder arrived, and the gathered cultivators sensed a new confrontation approaching.

• Dongguo Feng refused to yield despite his severe injuries and asked Su Yi to show him a third sword move.
• Su Yi’s sword strike shattered Dongguo Feng’s attack and disarmed him, then stopped three inches from his throat before vanishing.
• Su Yi explained that he had spared Dongguo Feng because he admired him, while Dongguo Feng vowed to return for revenge over Dongguo Yun.
• Dongguo Feng realized Su Yi had never drawn his sword because his swordsmanship was not yet strong enough to demand it.
• Seven powerful cultivators arrived, led by the Dongguo Clan’s Great Elder, whose presence unsettled the Cloud Heaven Divine Palace’s leaders.

Dongguo Hai arrived with six Dongguo Clan experts and tried to seize Su Yi and his companions, despite Dongguo Feng objecting. Su Yi faced the six Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators alone and shattered their combined attack with a single sword strike.

• Dongguo Hai ordered Yu Jiuzhen to capture Su Yi, Wen Xinzhao, Cold Smoke True Person, and Qing Ya, but Dongguo Feng insisted the clan should honor their duel's outcome.
• Dongguo Hai rejected Dongguo Feng's objections and declared that Su Yi and the Cloud Heaven Divine Palace members would be punished.
• Su Yi stepped forward to fight the six Dongguo Clan experts, while Dongguo Hai kept the injured Dongguo Feng from intervening.
• The six Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators attacked Su Yi together with their treasures.
• Su Yi drew his black Dao sword and shattered the six cultivators' combined attack with one strike.

Su Yi shattered the Dongguo Clan’s Six Harmonies Dark Night Battle Formation and began slaughtering its Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators. As Dongguo Hai prepared to intervene, Su Yi killed the three remaining fleeing cultivators with a torrent of Sword Qi.

• The six Dongguo Clan Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators formed the Six Harmonies Dark Night Battle Formation and attacked Su Yi.
• Su Yi saw through the formation’s flaws and destroyed it with a single sword strike, shattering the six Beast Bone Battle Swords.
• Su Yi killed the Jade Robe Man, the Gray Robe Middle-Aged Man, and the Black-Clothed Old Man in rapid succession.
• Dongguo Hai prepared to join the fight as the three remaining cultivators fled from Su Yi.
• Su Yi sent Sword Qi crashing down and killed the three fleeing cultivators, scattering their souls.

Su Yi killed Dongguo Hai after overwhelming him in battle, using sword qi embedded in his wounds to make him explode before he could activate the God Burning Talisman. He offered the talisman to Dongguo Feng and warned him that the Dongguo Clan would pay a price if it sought revenge.

• Su Yi annihilated six Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators, and Dongguo Feng blamed Dongguo Hai for provoking him.
• Su Yi fought Dongguo Hai and gained the upper hand, leaving him with numerous sword wounds that Dongguo Hai could not heal.
• Dongguo Hai summoned the God Burning Talisman, but Su Yi said, "Explode!" and triggered the sword qi in his wounds, killing him.
• Su Yi asked Qing Ya whether Dongguo Hai's death had been pretty, and she said it was satisfying but disgusting.
• Su Yi told Dongguo Feng he could seek revenge someday, warned the Dongguo Clan against retaliation, and sent him the God Burning Talisman.

After Su Yi defeated Dongguo Feng and killed Dongguo Hai and six other Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators, he left Cloud Heaven Divine Palace with Wen Xinzhao and her companions. Later that night, a mysterious bell drew Su Yi’s attention and led the dazed Dongguo Feng to a strange bamboo house marked “Pawnshop.”

• Su Yi departed Cloud Heaven Divine Palace with Wen Xinzhao, Qing Ya, and Cold Smoke True Person while the defeated Dongguo Clan and Cloud Heaven Divine Palace watched.
• Dongguo Feng walked away alone, still wounded and shaken by his defeat.
• At an abandoned Taoist temple, Su Yi discussed cultivation and swordsmanship with Wen Xinzhao and the others, then promised they could wait calmly for the coming Brilliant Era.
• A faint bell rang through the night, and Su Yi left the temple to investigate.
• Dongguo Feng heard the bell, recovered his senses, and found himself in unfamiliar mountain wilderness.
• Dongguo Feng followed a distant lantern to a bamboo house labeled “Pawnshop” and felt compelled to enter.

Dongguo Feng entered the mysterious pawnshop after its bell invited him and learned that it could trade treasures and methods for equivalent prices. When he refused to make a deal, the abacus and scale reacted to another urgent bell, and the shopkeeper granted him a karmic fortune instead.

• The Old Shopkeeper invited Dongguo Feng into the pawnshop and explained that the bell summoned guests qualified to enter.
• Dongguo Feng examined the shelf’s treasures, including a sword pawned by a Sword Emperor and a hand left by an Empress.
• The Old Shopkeeper said Dongguo Feng could seek anything, even the method to become an emperor, if the scale recognized him and he paid an equivalent price.
• Dongguo Feng refused to make a transaction, so the Old Shopkeeper began calculating his punishment with the abacus.
• A sudden bell made the abacus and scale shake, and the Old Shopkeeper announced that Dongguo Feng’s punishment was waived and he would receive karmic fortune.
• The scale produced a Bronze Box, leaving the Old Shopkeeper visibly distressed.

Su Yi confronted the pawnshop’s Old Shopkeeper and read a letter from the shop’s absent master. The letter warned him that his eldest and youngest disciples were searching for him, and Old Shopkeeper revealed that the master had gone deep into the Starry Sky to make a deal connected to the Jailor.

• Old Shopkeeper forced Dongguo Feng to accept a Bronze Box and sent him out of the pawnshop, then greeted Su Yi when he arrived.
• Su Yi questioned Old Shopkeeper about why the pawnshop had appeared on the Azure Green Continent and summoned the Heart Knocking Bell.
• The Judgment Scale produced the master’s black paper crane, which Su Yi unfolded and read as a letter warning him about his eldest and youngest disciples.
• Su Yi learned that the pawnshop’s master had left for the Starry Sky over four hundred years earlier to make a deal connected to someone called the Jailor.
• Su Yi reacted with shock when Old Shopkeeper mentioned the Jailor.

Su Yi learned that his third disciple Huo Yao had killed the Blood Fiend Sword Emperor, whose Sword Tempering Stone the pawnshop had given to Dongguo Feng. After leaving the pawnshop with a mysterious jade box from its master, Su Yi watched it vanish and opened the box.

• Su Yi read a letter from the pawnshop's master saying she had gone deep into the starry sky to seek the higher path of the sword and would trade information for ten thousand paper cranes.
• The Old Shopkeeper explained that the pawnshop had given Dongguo Feng the Blood Fiend Sword Emperor's Sword Tempering Stone, and Su Yi warned that it carried the Emperor's karma.
• The Old Shopkeeper revealed that Huo Yao had joined two Emperor Realm figures from the Profound Abyss Alliance to kill the Blood Fiend Sword Emperor three hundred years earlier.
• Su Yi realized Dongguo Feng might someday seek vengeance against Huo Yao, then left after receiving a jade box from the pawnshop's master.
• The Heart Knocking Bell explained that it had followed Xuan Ning's Heart Blood to the Azure Green Continent and invited Dongguo Feng because his state of mind suited the Sword Tempering Stone.
• Su Yi watched the pawnshop disappear, opened the jade box, and wondered what the master had left for him.

Su Yi returned from the All Heavens Pawnshop and warned Dongguo Feng about the Bronze Box’s karmic ties, while the Emperor Xia faced pressure from six ancient powers over sheltering Su Yi. The Emperor Xia refused Pu Surong’s offer to resolve the crisis in exchange for taking Xia Qingyuan away, then told her to leave Azure Cloud Courtyard for an arriving guest.

• Su Yi found a silver paper crane and a tiny Bronze Box left by the pawnshop owner, along with her warning not to open it unless his life was in danger.
• Su Yi told Dongguo Feng that the box held an item left by a demon-path Sword Emperor and that opening it would bind him to karmic ties.
• Su Yi returned to the Taoist temple, reassured Wen Xinzhao and the others, and set out with them for Nine Cauldrons City.
• Weng Jiu reported that six ancient powers were preparing to oppose the Great Xia Imperial Family, and the Emperor Xia vowed not to abandon Su Yi.
• Pu Surong offered to help the Great Xia Imperial Family if the Emperor Xia let her take Xia Qingyuan away, but he refused and told her to make room for an esteemed guest.

Pu Surong told the Emperor Xia she would take their daughter, while news of Su Yi’s victory over Dongguo Feng and six Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators spread across Great Xia and alarmed the ancient factions. Four days after leaving Cloud Heaven Divine Palace, Su Yi and Wen Xinzhao arrived in Nine Cauldrons City, where someone hurried to greet him.

• Pu Surong left with A Leng after warning the Emperor Xia that he might need her help, and the Emperor Xia vowed not to let her take their daughter unless the girl chose to go.
• Weng Jiu told the Emperor Xia that Su Yi had defeated Dongguo Feng and slain six Spirit Appearance Realm cultivators at Cloud Heaven Divine Palace, lifting the Emperor Xia’s spirits.
• News of Su Yi’s victory swept through Great Xia, while Huan Tiandu urged the ancient factions to act quickly and eliminate him.
• Wen Changxue, Si Yunji, Cheng Lin, and Liang Jianting voiced their factions’ positions, while Dongguo Bofu ordered his clan to find Dongguo Feng before considering revenge or further action against the Xia Clan.
• On February 22, Su Yi and Wen Xinzhao arrived in Nine Cauldrons City, where a man jumped from a bronze treasure carriage and greeted Su Yi with relief.

Su Yi returned to Azure Cloud Courtyard and cultivated his emerging Primal Beginning Dao Intent while waiting for Emperor Xia. When Pu Huai, a Purple Moon Fox Clan demon, tried to subdue him with Soul-Seizing Spirit Speech, Su Yi turned the technique against him and learned that Pu Surong had sent him to investigate.

• Weng Jiu welcomed Su Yi to Azure Cloud Courtyard and told him that Pu Surong and her entourage had stayed there before moving away two days earlier.
• Su Yi relaxed by the pond, refined the three Supreme Grade Dao Rhythms in his spirit palace, and expected to condense Primal Beginning Dao Intent within seven days.
• Pu Huai entered the courtyard and tried to use Soul-Seizing Spirit Speech to make Su Yi kneel, but Su Yi revealed he had never been affected.
• Su Yi struck Pu Huai with a Dao Sound, forced him to kneel and kowtow three times, then questioned him.
• Pu Huai identified Saintess Pu Surong as his sender and said she had been driven from the courtyard; he clarified that her daughter was named Pu Qingyuan, not Xia Qingyuan.
• Su Yi asked Pu Huai whether he knew Ruo Huan, suspecting the Purple Moon Fox Clan scent in the courtyard might be connected to her.

Su Yi agreed to help the Emperor Xia repair the Nine Cauldrons Suppressing World Array as the Great Xia faced threats from ancient factions and Pu Surong. Meanwhile, Pu Surong planned to approach Su Yi about ending his relationship with Xia Qingyuan and decided to wait until he was in trouble before offering help.

• Pu Huai recovered from Su Yi’s influence and left after the Emperor Xia warned Pu Surong against using petty schemes.
• The Emperor Xia told Su Yi that the Great Xia was beset by threats and asked him to repair the Nine Cauldrons Suppressing World Array; Su Yi agreed.
• Su Yi asked whether the Emperor Xia would let Xia Qingyuan leave with Pu Surong, and the Emperor Xia firmly refused before recounting their history.
• Wen Xinzhao warned Su Yi that the seven ancient giant factions intended to target him, but Su Yi dismissed the threat and turned to dinner.
• Pu Surong discussed Su Yi’s resistance to the Purple Moon Fox Clan’s arts with Pu Huai and Ruo Huan, then resolved to persuade him to leave Xia Qingyuan.
• Pu Surong decided to wait for Su Yi to fall into misfortune so she could offer him help and encourage him to break with Xia Qingyuan.

Su Yi used the Great Xia Imperial Family’s damaged Violet Mansion Eight Trigrams Furnace and the array at Heavenly Mang Mountain to begin reforging the Xuanwu Sword into his natal spiritual treasure. The forging triggered a tremendous heavenly phenomenon that drew attention across Nine Cauldrons City, and A Leng headed to the mountain to investigate.

• Su Yi examined the Violet Mansion Eight Trigrams Furnace and warned Emperor Xia that repairing the Nine Cauldrons Suppressing World Array could cause it to collapse within a year, but Emperor Xia agreed to proceed.
• Su Yi arranged to repair the array every three days and use its power to temper the Xuanwu Sword.
• Seven days later, Su Yi began fusing the Xuanwu Sword into the Emperor-grade Azure Capital Sword, using the Netherflame Demon Sparrow’s essence soul and rare spiritual materials to forge his natal Spirit Sword.
• The forging shook Heavenly Mang Mountain and drew thunderclouds and surging spiritual energy toward the cavern, while Emperor Xia ordered Weng Jiu to calm the people on the mountain.
• Pu Surong and A Leng discussed the phenomenon, and A Leng set off for Heavenly Mang Mountain to investigate.
• Outside Nine Cauldrons City, the Old Blind Man recognized the phenomenon as a sign that Su Yi was refining a Supreme Grade spiritual treasure.

Su Yi completed his Lifebound Dao Sword by forging the Nirvana Fire Imperial Decree into it and named it Xuandu. Afterward, the Emperor Xia told him that the Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion had sent a prominent figure to request an audience, leaving Su Yi wondering why they wanted to meet him.

• A Leng infiltrated Heavenly Mang Mountain but was detected and driven off by Su Yi, who saw through the Emperor Realm willpower concealed within him.
• Su Yi forged the Nirvana Fire Imperial Decree into his sword, transforming it into a powerful Lifebound Dao Sword.
• Su Yi named the sword Xuandu and stored it in his Great Dao Spirit Palace.
• The Emperor Xia congratulated Su Yi and heard him promise to repair the Nine Cauldrons Suppressing World Array.
• The Emperor Xia told Su Yi that the Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion had requested an audience, and Su Yi asked why they wanted to see him.

Su Yi received Pu Surong, A Leng, and Ruo Huan, who came to ask him to sever ties with Xia Qingyuan in exchange for protection from the ancient factions. He was baffled by their assumption that he and Xia Qingyuan were romantically involved.

• Emperor Xia told Su Yi that Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion wanted to exploit the Great Xia Imperial Family’s troubles, and Su Yi agreed to meet its visitors.
• A Leng described being thwarted by someone wielding the Nine Cauldrons Suppressing World Array, and Pu Surong suspected Su Yi was responsible.
• Su Yi discussed Wen Xinzhao’s coming breakthrough and warned her that strangers would visit the courtyard.
• Pu Surong, A Leng, and Ruo Huan arrived, and Su Yi revealed that he had been the one who used the array against A Leng.
• Pu Surong offered to ease Su Yi’s troubles if he ended his ties with her daughter, Xia Qingyuan, while A Leng and Ruo Huan assumed Su Yi was romantically involved with her.
• Su Yi asked what relationship they meant, stunned by their misunderstanding.

Pu Surong asked Su Yi to sever his ties with Xia Qingyuan so she could take her daughter back to the Purple Moon Fox Clan to become its Saintess, but Su Yi refused to let anyone take Qingyuan against her will. When Mi Tianhe arrived to invite Su Yi into Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion with exceptional privileges, Su Yi rejected the offer outright.

• Pu Surong explained that Xia Qingyuan would have to forsake romantic attachments to inherit the Purple Moon Fox Clan's Saintess position, and asked Su Yi to help persuade her.
• Su Yi declared that no one could take Xia Qingyuan unless she chose to leave, and Pu Surong decided to stay when she learned Mi Tianhe was arriving.
• Mi Tianhe introduced himself as Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion's Third Elder and invited Su Yi to join the sect as a core successor, free from sect rules and elder orders.
• Su Yi declined the invitation without hesitation, surprising Mi Tianhe, Weng Jiu, and the others present.