Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing entered the Shushan Sword Tomb and caused every sword within it to acknowledge him, astonishing Chen Yuan and the elders. As he continued searching for a stronger sword, a terrifying Sword Qi erupted from the tomb and drew the Seven Great Peaks’ Peak Masters to its gates.

• Chen Yuan sent Chen Changqing into the Sword Tomb, where he found countless divine swords embedded across a vast wilderness.
• Chen Changqing released his aura and spiritual sense, making ten thousand swords cry out and rise into the air.
• Chen Yuan and the two Tribulation Transcendence elders realized that every sword in the tomb had acknowledged Chen Changqing.
• Suspecting his Sword Domain had caused the swords’ response, Chen Changqing continued sensing for the Quasi-Immortal Artifact or Immortal Artifact hidden within the tomb.
• On the third day, a powerful Sword Qi burst from the Sword Tomb, pierced its barrier, and spread across Shushan Holy Land.
• The Seven Great Peaks’ Peak Masters arrived at the Sword Tomb and greeted Chen Yuan.

Chen Changqing’s search in the Shushan Sword Tomb awakened a powerful divine sword, astonishing Chen Yuan and the Seven Great Peak Masters. The sword proved to be the Thunderflame Sword, one of the legendary Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords, which Chen Changqing had successfully drawn from the tomb.

• Chen Yuan and the Seven Great Peak Masters watched through the ancient mirror as Chen Changqing’s presence stirred every sword in the Sword Tomb.
• Chen Changqing sensed that the source of the earlier Sword Qi lay at the tomb’s center, where something had awakened.
• A blinding sword light erupted from the center, and the swords floating throughout the tomb lowered their points in submission.
• Chen Changqing saw a crimson sword marked with purple Thunder Patterns rise into the air, its Sword Qi suppressing even his seven Violet Palaces.
• Chen Yuan and the Peak Masters recognized the sword as the Thunderflame Sword, one of the Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords and a Quasi-Immortal Artifact.

Chen Changqing gained the Thunderflame Sword’s recognition in the Shushan Sword Tomb, claimed it as his own, and inherited the Thunderflame Sword Technique. He emerged to find the Seven Great Peaks’ Peak Masters waiting outside.

• Chen Changqing charged through the Thunderflame Sword’s Sword Qi and grabbed its hilt, suppressing the sword’s backlash with his seven Violet Palaces.
• The Thunderflame Sword recognized Chen Changqing and revealed that it was a peak Quasi-Immortal Artifact containing the Thunderflame Sword Technique.
• Chen Changqing used the system to begin AFK Cultivation of the Thunderflame Sword Technique, then bound the sword to himself with his essence blood.
• The onlookers were astonished that Chen Changqing claimed the sword so easily, and Chen Yuan praised him.
• Chen Changqing emerged from the Sword Tomb and was surprised to find the Peak Masters of all Seven Great Peaks gathered outside.

After Chen Changqing obtained the Thunderflame Sword, he returned to Changqing Peak and used the system’s Fusion Function to combine his sword techniques. Three days later, the fusion succeeded and produced the Immortal Slaying Sword Technique.

• Chen Yuan and the seven Peak Masters congratulated Chen Changqing after he emerged from the Sword Tomb with the Thunderflame Sword.
• Chen Yuan examined the Thunderflame Sword and told Chen Changqing to cultivate diligently toward the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Changqing returned to Changqing Peak and activated the Fusion Function to combine five sword techniques.
• The system began the sword technique fusion, which Chen Changqing learned would take three days.
• After three days, the system announced that the fusion had produced the five-form Immortal Slaying Sword Technique, whose first form could slay a Nascent Soul.

Chen Changqing gained the Immortal Slaying Sword Technique and began cultivating it through the system. He returned the Changhong Sword to Ran Hua, then learned that Liu Ruyan had come to see him, likely about the Hundred Dynasties War.

• Chen Changqing discovered the five-form Immortal Slaying Sword Technique and started AFK cultivation of it.
• Chen Changqing visited Ran Hua and returned the Changhong Sword, which Ran Hua accepted with gratitude.
• Wang Yang told Chen Changqing that Liu Ruyan had come to see him.
• Chen Changqing suspected Liu Ruyan had come to discuss the Hundred Dynasties War and left to meet her.

As the Hundred Dynasties War approached, Chen Changqing agreed to accompany Liu Ruyan to the Maple Leaf Dynasty and arranged for Changqing Peak to be managed in his absence. Chen Yuan explained Liu Ruyan’s connection to the dynasty and warned Chen Changqing about the war’s dangers, leaving Chen Changqing prepared to depart the next morning.

• Liu Ruyan asked Chen Changqing to accompany her to the Hundred Dynasties War in the Maple Leaf Dynasty, and he agreed to leave the next day after handling his affairs and consulting his master.
• Chen Changqing appointed Elder Willow Wood to oversee Changqing Peak while he was away and told his trusted subordinates he would attend the Hundred Dynasties War with Liu Ruyan.
• Chen Changqing visited Chen Yuan and reported that he had promised to accompany Liu Ruyan to the war.
• Chen Yuan explained that Liu Ruyan came from the Maple Leaf Dynasty, whose founding ancestor, True Lord Willow Leaf, had come from Shushan.
• Chen Yuan warned Chen Changqing that the Hundred Dynasties War was dangerous and urged him not to fight recklessly; Chen Changqing said he understood.

Chen Changqing left Shushan with Liu Ruyan aboard the Maple Splendor Boat to compete in the Hundred Dynasties War. Along the way, Liu Ruyan explained the stakes of the war, and they arrived at a teleportation plaza controlled by the Formation Annihilation Holy Land.

• Chen Yuan watched Chen Changqing depart and anticipated seeing how he performed in the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Chen Changqing left Changqing Peak, met Lin Yuan at Shushan's Mountain Gate, and learned that Lin Yuan had reached Foundation Establishment with the help of his pill.
• Chen Changqing boarded the Maple Splendor Boat, and he and Liu Ruyan set off for the Maple Leaf Dynasty.
• Liu Ruyan told Chen Changqing that the Hundred Dynasties War would determine which of the Empress's nine daughters succeeded her.
• Chen Changqing asked Liu Ruyan about treasures containing wood origin power or Black Tortoise power, and she promised to inquire after they reached the dynasty.
• After three days of travel, Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan arrived at a teleportation plaza, where Liu Ruyan explained that the Formation Annihilation Holy Land controlled its arrays.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan waited for their reserved cross-region transmission and encountered Chen Ye fighting another True Martial Immortal Sect disciple near the transmission site. Chen Changqing reunited with Chen Ye at a tavern, where Chen Ye met Liu Ruyan and suspected she was more than Chen Changqing’s Senior Sister.

• Liu Ruyan told Chen Changqing that their cross-region transmission had been reserved for three days later, and they went to a nearby tavern.
• Chen Changqing recognized Chen Ye fighting another cultivator in the air, and Chen Ye defeated his opponent with a physical attack.
• Chen Ye recognized Chen Changqing as Li Feiyu from the Blood Moon World and happily approached him.
• Chen Changqing invited Chen Ye to drink and introduced him to Liu Ruyan as his Senior Sister.
• Chen Ye questioned Liu Ruyan’s Senior Sister relationship with Chen Changqing and gave him a knowing look.

Chen Changqing, traveling under the alias Li Feiyu, explained the True Martial Immortal Sect’s brutal contests to Chen Ye and discussed leaving the Blood Moon World. When Chen Ye asked to meet the famous Chen Changqing, Chen Changqing revealed his identity, leaving Chen Ye stunned.

• Chen Ye told Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan that the man he had fought was his junior brother and described how the True Martial Immortal Sect encouraged disciples to fight ruthlessly for rank.
• Chen Changqing explained that he had left the Blood Moon World after earning challenge-arena points and asking an expert there for help.
• Chen Ye excitedly told Li Feiyu that Chen Changqing had displaced Jian Zhenzi and reached the top of the Azure Dragon Ranking, then asked for an introduction so he could challenge him.
• Chen Changqing admitted that Li Feiyu was his alias and that his real name was Chen Changqing.
• Chen Ye stared in disbelief after learning that the man before him was the number one on the Azure Dragon Ranking.

Chen Changqing revealed his identity to Chen Ye and explained that he was accompanying Liu Ruyan to the Hundred Dynasties War. After three days, they left by teleportation, while a fierce battle between Demon Race creatures unfolded elsewhere on the Jiuzhou Continent.

• Chen Ye learned that Li Feiyu was actually Chen Changqing, the Azure Dragon Ranking's top-ranked cultivator, and toasted him.
• Chen Changqing told Chen Ye that Liu Ruyan was the princess of the Maple Leaf Dynasty and that he would accompany her to the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Chen Ye said he had come to investigate a nearby secret realm, but it would not open before Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan had to leave.
• After three days, Chen Changqing bid farewell to Chen Ye and departed with Liu Ruyan aboard the Maple Splendor Boat through the Teleportation Array.
• Elsewhere in a mountain range, several Demon Race creatures fought a massive hound-like creature with peak Demon Warrior cultivation.

Little Black killed the wolf demons hunting him, advanced to the Demon General level, and awakened Soul Devour while longing for Chen Changqing. Meanwhile, Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan completed their final teleportation toward the Maple Leaf Dynasty, where Liu Ruyan hoped he would help her in the Hundred Dynasties War.

• Little Black recalled being separated from Chen Changqing during their teleportation and surviving alone in the mountains.
• Little Black killed and devoured the wolf demons sent by the mountain-range lord, then advanced to the Demon General level and awakened Soul Devour.
• Little Black spotted the Demon King who had ordered the attacks, cursed him, and fled into the forest.
• Liu Ruyan told Chen Changqing that the Hundred Dynasties War would decide the Maple Leaf Dynasty's future Empress and said she hoped his help would change the outcome.
• After ten days of travel, Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan entered a Teleportation Array and arrived within the Maple Leaf Dynasty's borders.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan entered the world of dynasties, where Liu Ruyan explained the hierarchy of bubbles and the Jiuzhou Divine Dynasty. After the Divine Dynasty’s Immortal Artifact gatekeepers admitted them, they reached the Maple Leaf Dynasty’s imperial capital.

• Liu Ruyan explained that each bubble contained a dynasty, with the central bubble belonging to the Jiuzhou Divine Dynasty.
• Two immense gatekeepers appeared and stopped the Maple Splendor Boat, then opened a passage after Liu Ruyan presented her Maple Leaf Dynasty token.
• Liu Ruyan told Chen Changqing that the gatekeepers were manifestations of an Immortal Artifact, prompting him to wonder why his Heaven Treading Ring showed no such abilities.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan traveled through the passage into the Maple Leaf Dynasty and arrived at its imperial capital.
• Someone nearby recognized Liu Ruyan as the Ninth Princess and cried out in surprise.

Liu Ruyan returned to the Maple Leaf Dynasty’s Imperial City with Chen Changqing, where General Wang Junmo questioned why she had recruited a Violet Palace cultivator for the Hundred Dynasties War. As the pair arrived at Liu Ruyan’s residence, her father eagerly came out to greet her.

• Wang Junmo greeted Liu Ruyan and learned that Chen Changqing was her junior brother, but dismissed him as a weak choice for outside help.
• Liu Ruyan asked which of her sisters had returned, and Wang Junmo said that eight princesses were back while the Eldest Princess, Liu Rushuang, had yet to arrive.
• Wang Junmo wondered whether Chen Changqing was Liu Ruyan’s male consort after watching them leave together.
• Residents of the Imperial City greeted Liu Ruyan and speculated that Chen Changqing might be her male favorite, but Liu Ruyan told him not to mind the gossip.
• Liu Ruyan brought Chen Changqing to her residence, where her refined middle-aged father heard she had returned and hurried to greet her.

Liu Ruyan brought Chen Changqing to meet her father, Liu Tian, who doubted that a Violet Mansion cultivator could help her in the Hundred Dynasties War. After she revealed Chen Changqing was first on the Azure Dragon Ranking, Liu Tian and Xu Zhen were stunned, leaving Chen Changqing’s reputation newly recognized.

• Liu Tian questioned Liu Ruyan for choosing Violet Mansion cultivator Chen Changqing as her helper and introduced the Nascent Soul cultivator Xu Zhen he had arranged for her.
• Xu Zhen looked down on Chen Changqing and resented Liu Ruyan’s cool reception.
• Liu Ruyan refused her father’s arrangement and identified Chen Changqing as Chen Yuan’s Gatekeeping Disciple and the Sacred Land’s Eleventh Sequence Holy Son.
• Liu Tian recognized Chen Changqing as the Azure Dragon Ranking’s first-ranked prodigy and reacted with astonishment.
• Xu Zhen changed his opinion of Chen Changqing after learning his identity, while Chen Changqing remained unconcerned by their surprise.

After learning that Chen Changqing topped the Azure Dragon Ranking, Liu Tian warmly welcomed him and agreed to bring him and Liu Ruyan to the imperial palace for the Hundred Dynasties War. Liu Tian gave Chen Changqing Black Tortoise Essence Blood, which he planned to refine immediately to open his eighth Violet Palace.

• Liu Tian recognized Chen Changqing as the Azure Dragon Ranking champion, apologized for underestimating him, and asked for his help in the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Liu Tian arranged a lavish dinner and agreed to take Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan to the imperial palace in three days.
• Liu Ruyan asked Liu Tian about treasures containing Five Elements Origin or Four Symbols Power for Chen Changqing's cultivation.
• Liu Tian revealed the Xuan Ming Suppressing Sea Cauldron and extracted its Black Tortoise Essence Blood for Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing stored the essence blood and asked Liu Ruyan to arrange a quiet room so he could refine it and open his eighth Violet Palace.

Chen Changqing refined the Black Tortoise Essence Blood in the Liu family’s meditation chamber and opened his eighth Violet Palace. After reuniting with Liu Ruyan, he learned that he would accompany her and Liu Tian to meet His Majesty the next day.

• Liu Tian asked Liu Ruyan about her relationship with Chen Changqing, and she shyly insisted he was only her junior brother.
• Chen Changqing entered the Liu family’s water-rich meditation chamber and began refining the Black Tortoise Essence Blood.
• After three days of cultivation, Chen Changqing formed the Black Tortoise Violet Palace, leaving only the wood-element Violet Palace unopened.
• Chen Changqing emerged from seclusion and met Liu Ruyan, who sensed that his aura had grown more formidable.
• Liu Tian invited Chen Changqing to accompany him and Liu Ruyan to the palace to meet His Majesty the next day.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan prepared to enter the Hundred Dynasties War, learning that Liu Ruyan’s eldest sister had secured a disciple of the True Martial Immortal Sect as outside help. At the palace audience, Chen Changqing met Empress Willow Leaf, who noticed his Violet Mansion Realm cultivation.

• Liu Tian told Liu Ruyan that all eight of her sisters had returned and that her eldest sister had enlisted a disciple of the True Martial Immortal Sect.
• Chen Changqing recognized the sect’s connection to Chen Ye and thought about testing the strength of Liu Ruyan’s eldest sister’s ally.
• Liu Tian asked Chen Changqing to help Liu Ruyan in the Hundred Dynasties War, and Chen Changqing promised to do what he could.
• The next morning, Liu Tian escorted Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan to the imperial palace, where the eight Imperial Daughters and their outside helpers had gathered.
• Chen Changqing greeted Empress Willow Leaf and sensed that she was in the Tribulation Crossing Realm.
• Empress Willow Leaf warmly welcomed Liu Ruyan, then looked at Chen Changqing and identified his cultivation as Violet Mansion Realm.

Liu Ruyan revealed that Chen Changqing, whom the other Imperial Daughters had mocked for his Violet Mansion cultivation, was Shushan Holy Land leader True Man Chen Yuan’s Gatekeeping Disciple. The hall fell into stunned silence as the Imperial Daughters realized who he was.

• Empress Willow Leaf and the Imperial Daughters questioned and mocked Liu Ruyan for bringing Chen Changqing, a Violet Mansion Cultivator, as her help for the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Empress Willow Leaf gently asked whether Chen Changqing was merely Liu Ruyan’s friend, and Liu Ruyan confirmed he had come to help her compete.
• Liu Qing ridiculed Liu Ruyan for finding a weak helper despite cultivating at Shushan Holy Land.
• Liu Ruyan asked who said Shushan had no one, then introduced Chen Changqing as the Gatekeeping Disciple of Shushan’s leader, True Man Chen Yuan.
• Liu Qing and the other Imperial Daughters froze and stared at Chen Changqing in disbelief.

Chen Changqing’s identity as the Azure Dragon Ranking’s top prodigy stunned the court and strengthened Liu Ruyan’s position among her sisters. Empress Liu Ye dismissed the court, then summoned Liu Ruyan and Chen Changqing to the rear garden, where she asked about Chen Changqing’s master.

• Liu Ruyan revealed that Chen Changqing was the number one on the Azure Dragon Ranking and Shushan’s Eleventh Sequence Holy Son, leaving Liu Qing and the other Imperial Daughters shocked.
• The First Imperial Daughter, Liu Shi, and the other helpers reassessed Chen Changqing, while Liu Tian privately celebrated their change in attitude.
• Empress Liu Ye recognized Chen Changqing as the new Azure Dragon Ranking leader and dismissed the court, asking Liu Ruyan and Chen Changqing to remain.
• After a maid led them to the rear garden, Empress Liu Ye turned to Chen Changqing and asked, “Your master... is he well?”

Empress Willow Leaf revealed that she and Chen Yuan had belonged to the same lineage and that he was her senior brother, while Liu Tian explained how they had met during a past Hundred Dynasties War. Chen Changqing learned the war’s rules: competitors would enter a secret realm, earn points by killing creatures or taking points from others, and could also seek treasures and ancient legacies.

• Empress Willow Leaf asked Chen Changqing about Chen Yuan and revealed that Chen Yuan had been her senior brother in the same lineage.
• Empress Willow Leaf praised Chen Yuan’s disciples and told Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan to prepare for the Hundred Dynasties War, which would begin in three days.
• Liu Ruyan asked Chen Changqing about her mother’s relationship with Chen Yuan, but Chen Changqing only repeated that they were senior brother and junior sister.
• Liu Ruyan told Liu Tian that Empress Willow Leaf had asked about Chen Yuan, and Liu Tian explained that she had cultivated at Shushan before meeting him during the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Chen Changqing asked Liu Tian about the war’s rules, and Liu Tian explained that participants would enter a secret realm, earn points by killing creatures or taking points from others, and could find treasures and ancient legacies.