Chapter Summaries

Su Hao entered a cave dwelling, found Chen Jing in danger, and joined her to explore after learning about her extraordinary luck. He claimed a mysterious mirror from a shrine and discovered it was the Universe Mirror.

• Su Hao broke free of the heart-questioning illusion, left Lin Ziyi behind, and collected spirit bamboo and a thousand-year Golden Longevity Grass.
• Su Hao found Chen Jing fighting Tian Ming, a Golden Core heretical cultivator, and killed Tian Ming with a crescent-shaped sword strike.
• Chen Jing thanked Su Hao and agreed to explore the cave dwelling with him, recounting how her Divine Blessing talent had repeatedly turned danger into fortune.
• Chen Jing pointed out a mirror in a small shrine and offered it to Su Hao, who accepted it and identified it as the Universe Mirror.

Su Hao and Chen Jing explored True Lord Void Spirit’s cave abode, collecting treasures before Chen Jing was chosen to inherit the legacy. Xu Bufan, Lin Ziyi, and four Great Ding Sect cultivators arrived, and Chen Jing emerged with the grand hall reduced in her hand.

• Su Hao accepted the Universe Mirror from Chen Jing and discussed whether taking it might bring him misfortune.
• Su Hao and Chen Jing split eight rare spirit herbs and found three Spirit Treasures, including the Mystic Turtle Armor that Su Hao kept.
• True Lord Void Spirit’s divine sense rejected Su Hao because he had already cultivated a stronger sacred-art-level technique, while Chen Jing remained inside to receive the inheritance.
• Xu Bufan and Lin Ziyi arrived, and Xu Bufan was thrown back by the grand hall’s invisible barrier when he tried to enter.
• Four Great Ding Sect cultivators arrived, but Su Hao told them Chen Jing had obtained the inheritance.
• Chen Jing walked out as the grand hall shrank into her hand.

Chen Jing obtained True Lord Void Spirit’s inheritance and shared part of its treasures with Su Hao, revealing that she had awakened memories of an Immortal Lord. After they left the cave abode, Su Hao emerged into a tense standoff with the Golden Light Sect’s powerful cultivators.

• The Great Ding Sect cultivators prepared to kill the Golden Light Sect members, but Chen Jing teleported everyone away, leaving only herself and Su Hao.
• Chen Jing gave Su Hao two thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, a Seed of Divine Ability, and a Heavenly Wood Sword Essence, and explained that her awakened memories had revealed his cultivation secret.
• Su Hao confessed that he had originally given Chen Jing the Cloud Dragon Banner to get close to her, but Chen Jing forgave him and affirmed that they were friends.
• Chen Jing used the cave abode’s authority to teleport herself and Su Hao out, and they later emerged after a month had passed outside.
• The Great Ding Sect escorted Chen Jing away while three Nascent Soul experts fixed their attention on Su Hao, and Lin Ziyi apologized to him.

Yu Xuanji protected Su Hao from powerful cultivators investigating his role in the Void Spirit Hall, then questioned him about the inheritance and warned him about the Golden Light Sect’s schemes. She took him back toward the sect as Su Hao kept his deeper secrets to himself.

• Yu Xuanji shielded Su Hao from Jiang Kongyi and other powerful cultivators, and Jiang Kongyi ordered that Su Hao be left alone and promoted to core disciple.
• Lin Daosheng took Lin Ziyi away, while the remaining Nascent Soul cultivators departed and Yu Xuanji carried Su Hao off on a cloud boat.
• Yu Xuanji asked Su Hao about True Lord Void Spirit’s inheritance, and Su Hao explained that Chen Jing received it after he was rejected by the Void Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xuanji criticized Su Hao for letting Chen Jing keep the inheritance and predicted that Jiang Kongyi would ambush the Great Ding Sect’s party.
• Yu Xuanji warned Su Hao to distrust Jiang Kongyi and the other sect leaders, while Su Hao concealed how much he trusted Chen Jing and considered his gains.

After Su Hao returned to the Golden Light Sect with Yu Xuanji, he traded his four top-grade spirit herbs for pills and moved into her cave abode for protection and seclusion. He brought Little Cai along, while Lin Ziyi realized how far Su Hao had surpassed her.

• Su Hao shared the mission spoils with Chen Jing and agreed to give Yu Xuanji his four top-grade spirit herbs in exchange for more cultivation pills.
• Yu Xuanji sent Su Hao 200 bottles of Nine Splendor Profound Pills, 102 bottles of Purple Gold Mad Dragon Pills, and 30 bottles of Soaring Dragon Powder, then arranged for him to cultivate in her cave abode.
• Su Hao packed his pill furnace and Little Cai before Yu Xuanji took them from Wind Dragon Mountain.
• Yu Xuanji examined Little Cai's water-type minor divine ability and learned that the snake possessed part of a Dragon Bloodline.
• Lin Ziyi saw Su Hao being carried through the clouds and concluded that he had mastered a sword divine ability and might eventually surpass her.
• Su Hao arrived with Yu Xuanji at her lavish cave abode on Phoenix Perch Mountain, where Spiritual Energy was far denser than on Wind Dragon Mountain.

Yu Xuanji confined Su Hao in her residence to cultivate with the Nine Palaces Profound Phoenix Array, while Little Cai received a Humanoid Transformation Pill. After Jiang Kongyi’s failed raid on Great Ding Sect, the sect leaders discussed Su Hao’s talent and decided to reward him while leaving his aptitude in Yu Xuanji’s hands.

• Yu Xuanji sealed Su Hao inside her lodge and gave him access to the Nine Palaces Profound Phoenix Array, where he cultivated at increasingly powerful settings while consuming two bottles of Nine Splendor Profound Pills each day.
• Yu Xuanji gave Little Cai a Humanoid Transformation Pill, and Little Cai fell asleep after swallowing it.
• Jiang Kongyi told Yu Xuanji that a mysterious cultivator had defeated and taken the Nether Tiger Demon King during the failed raid on Great Ding Sect.
• Jiang Kongyi offered to promote Su Hao to a true disciple and let him cultivate at the Dragon Vein Pool for three years, while Yu Xuanji dismissed concerns about gossip.
• Shi Zuxuan reported that Su Hao might have mastered a sword-path divine ability, and Jiang Kongyi ordered him to deliver Su Hao’s rewards.

After two years of secluded cultivation, Su Hao reached the Golden Core stage but made little progress toward the middle stage or the divine ability hidden in the beast bone. He left seclusion to find Little Cai transformed into a partly human form, then faced Yu Xuanji’s doubts about his chances of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm within fifty years.

• Su Hao used Chen Jing’s ring to examine two thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, the Heavenly Wood Sword Essence, and a beast bone carrying three sword marks.
• Su Hao failed to comprehend the divine ability, improved his control of Sky Breaking Sword Qi, and raised the Miro Ring to the Top-grade magical artifact level during two years of cultivation.
• Su Hao left the meditation chamber and found Little Cai tending the medicinal garden in a partial human transformation granted by a Humanoid Transformation Pill from Yu Xuanji.
• Little Cai explained that she could complete her transformation at the Golden Core stage or by improving her Dragon Bloodline, and said Yu Xuanji had treated her well.
• Yu Xuanji warned Su Hao that his extravagant cultivation art and the difficulty of forming a Nascent Soul made reaching that realm within fifty years unlikely.
• Su Hao stared at Yu Xuanji’s information panel and saw that her talent was Reincarnated Mystic Maiden (Red).

Su Hao went to the Outer Sect Steward Hall to avenge Zhang by killing Fang Yunrong, who had sent Zhang to his death. After revealing his Golden Core strength, Su Hao turned to Qian Feng and asked about the inheritance secret realm they had once discussed.

• Yu Xuanji gave Su Hao a storage bag of rewards and agreed that he should kill Fang Yunrong, while Little Cai stayed behind to protect her Dragon Bloodline.
• Su Hao arrived at the Outer Sect Steward Hall and learned from Qian Feng that Fang Yunrong had become its Hall Master.
• Su Hao confronted Fang Yunrong over Zhang’s death and dismissed his claims that he had acted under orders.
• Su Hao killed Fang Yunrong with a single sword strike, and a nearby Golden Core cultivator chose not to retaliate.
• Qian Feng was shocked to learn that Su Hao had reached the Golden Core stage, and Su Hao asked whether he had found the inheritance secret realm.

Su Hao killed Qian Feng and faced the Law Enforcement Hall after killing Fang Yunrong, but he defeated deputy hall master Xue Ren with a single sword strike. He then bought medicinal ingredients from Bright Moon Studio and returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain, where he resumed refining pills despite Yu Xuanji’s disapproval.

• Su Hao killed Qian Feng after Qian Feng confessed that Mo You had threatened him, and he absorbed Qian Feng’s Treasure Control and Fire Profound Body talents.
• Wei Xiaoyun criticized Su Hao, but she backed down when he looked at her; Lin Ziyi and deputy hall master Xue Ren then arrived with the Law Enforcement Hall squad.
• Xue Ren challenged Su Hao to take one strike, but Su Hao cut through his saber attack and held the Remnant Fiend Sword to his head.
• Lin Ziyi took Su Hao onto the Blue Cloud Boat, apologized for revealing information about him in the Cloudy Mountain Range, and agreed to sell him medicinal ingredients.
• Su Hao paid a deposit and cleared Bright Moon Studio’s stock of third- and fourth-grade spirit medicines and its available fifth-grade ingredients before returning to Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Yu Xuanji found Su Hao working with his alchemy furnace and disapproved of his pill refining, while secretly watching for a chance to mock him.

Su Hao refined pills with extraordinary speed and talent, earning Yu Xuanji’s gift of the Wood Qi King Cauldron and an Enlightenment Pill. After using the pill to study the mysterious beast bone, he learned the sword Dao divine ability Three Thousand Azure Nether, leaving his cave abode and the skies above the Golden Light Sect trembling with sword intent.

• Su Hao refined large batches of Crimson Glaze Pills, impressing Yu Xuanji with his speed and high rate of top-grade results.
• Yu Xuanji gave Su Hao the Wood Qi King Cauldron, and he used it to refine Jade Lotus Spirit Pills and other medicines.
• Su Hao brought Yu Xuanji more than thirty bottles of Jade Lotus Spirit Pills, and she gave him an Enlightenment Pill.
• Su Hao consumed the Enlightenment Pill and focused on the sword marks on the mysterious beast bone.
• An old swordsman appeared and taught Su Hao the sword Dao divine ability Three Thousand Azure Nether, ranked ninety-ninth on the Supreme Origin Sword Sect’s Heaven and Earth Sword Dao Ranking.
• Sword intent surged from Su Hao, shaking the cave abode’s formation and turning the clouds above the Golden Light Sect into countless flying swords.

Yu Xuanji concealed Su Hao’s sword intent from the Golden Light Sect, while Jiang Kongyi and Shi Zuxuan discussed the sect’s search for the Myriad Souls Pagoda’s Artifact Spirit. Su Hao entered the Taiyuan Sword Realm in a vision, was rejected by its guardian, and returned with a deeper mastery of Three Thousand Azure Nether as Yu Xuanji waited outside his meditation chamber.

• Yu Xuanji contained the sword intent with the Nine Palaces Profound Phoenix Array, then passed it off to Jiang Kongyi and the Golden Light Sect’s higher-ups as a breakthrough in her Wind and Cloud Aspect.
• Shi Zuxuan suspected Su Hao had produced the pure sword intent, but Jiang Kongyi dismissed the idea and explained that the Artifact Spirit must possess a wood-type or Netherworld-type sacred physique.
• Su Hao’s consciousness entered the Taiyuan Sword Realm, where he climbed the steps and used his Sword Dao techniques to fuse more closely with his sword intent.
• A copper-armored guard declared Su Hao unworthy of entering the Taiyuan Sword Realm and expelled him, collapsing his consciousness back into his body.
• Su Hao awoke with a stronger divine sense and complete mastery of Three Thousand Azure Nether, while Yu Xuanji asked if he was all right after waiting outside for a month.

Su Hao learned about the Supreme Origin Sword Sect and demonstrated his powerful Three Thousand Azure Nether ability to Yu Xuanji before spending two years hunting for sword talents and reaching the middle stage of Golden Core. Meanwhile, Chou Lanjian emerged from the Golden Light Abyss with a mastered divine ability and headed to Phoenix Perch Mountain, determined to make Yuqing accept him as a disciple.

• Yu Xuanji told Su Hao about the Supreme Origin Sword Sect, its Heaven and Earth Sword Dao Ranking, and the Golden Light Abyss, while Su Hao declined to enter the Abyss for now.
• Su Hao demonstrated Three Thousand Azure Nether, startling Yu Xuanji with its power, and she hurried away after warning him to cultivate humbly.
• Su Hao concealed his identity and searched the sect for sword talents to steal, but after two years he still had not found another Sword Emperor talent and reached the middle stage of Golden Core.
• A Sword Dao phenomenon swept through the Golden Light Sect, and Yu Xuanji confirmed Su Hao had not caused it.
• Chou Lanjian emerged from the Golden Light Abyss after ten years with the Thousand Swords United and Universe Sword Finger, then set off for Phoenix Perch Mountain to seek Yuqing as his master.

Chou Lanjian came to Phoenix Perch Mountain to claim Yu Xuanji’s promised chance to become her disciple, but Su Hao killed him when he attacked. Su Hao absorbed Chou Lanjian’s Sword Emperor talent, combined it with another copy to create Innate Sword Immortal, and entered the Taiyuan Sword Realm.

• Chou Lanjian arrived at Phoenix Perch Mountain and demanded that Yu Xuanji honor her old promise to consider taking him as a disciple.
• Yu Xuanji sent Su Hao out to face Chou Lanjian, explaining that the promise depended on whether he could defeat Su Hao.
• Chou Lanjian attacked Su Hao with the Universe Sword Finger, but Su Hao cut through it with the Sky Breaking Sword Qi and obliterated him.
• Su Hao absorbed Chou Lanjian’s Sword Emperor talent, while Wei Hong and the gathered cultivators reacted in shock to Chou Lanjian’s death.
• Yu Xuanji told Su Hao that the sect would not punish him, then warned him that the Great Gan Dynasty’s Supreme Emperor might seek revenge.
• Su Hao combined two Sword Emperor talents to gain Innate Sword Immortal and entered the Taiyuan Sword Realm.

Su Hao returned to the Taiyuan Sword Realm, defeated its bronze-armored guard with the Heavenly Wood Sword Essence, and learned the Sword Spirit Embryo Technique. After mastering it, he left his body as a powerful Primordial Spirit and explored the Golden Light Sect, ending at a black tower filled with countless Talent Powers.

• Su Hao climbed to the hundredth step of the Taiyuan Sword Realm, where the bronze-armored guard explained the rules and challenged him.
• The Heavenly Wood Sword Essence appeared in Su Hao's hand and unleashed sword lights that destroyed the bronze-armored guard.
• Su Hao absorbed the red sword stele and learned the Sword Spirit Embryo Technique, then cultivated it as he climbed to the hundred-and-fiftieth step.
• Su Hao completed the technique and left the Taiyuan Sword Realm before the Silver Armored Guard could fight him.
• In his meditation chamber, Su Hao's Primordial Spirit emerged as a sword and absorbed the Heavenly Wood Sword Essence, then explored the cave abode and the Golden Light Sect unseen.
• Su Hao reached a restricted area and found a blood-stained black tower containing countless Talent Powers.

Su Hao secretly absorbed countless Talent Powers from the Myriad Souls Pagoda, awakening the Seven-Colored Innate Primordial Dao Embryo. After fleeing from a dangerous presence and a powerful aura in the sect, he restrained his new talent and considered drawing on the sect’s dragon-vein aura to fuel his cultivation.

• Su Hao approached the Myriad Souls Pagoda and absorbed enough White, Blue, and Purple Talent Powers to generate the Seven-Colored Innate Primordial Dao Embryo.
• Su Hao absorbed more Talents from the pagoda’s second and third levels, boosting his cultivation efficiency, power, and chance of sudden enlightenment.
• Su Hao detected a Red Talent and a hidden threat on the fifth level, then fled as a terrifying aura awakened within the sect.
• A black-robed old man repaired the pagoda’s crack, returned the escaping Ghost Kings, and suspected a Spirit Transformation cultivator had infiltrated the Golden Light Sect.
• Su Hao returned to his body, restrained the energy surge from his new talent, and considered using the sect’s dragon-vein aura to meet his cultivation needs.

Su Hao drew so much Dragon Vein Spiritual Energy into Phoenix Perch Mountain that the Dragon Vein Pool weakened, prompting the Golden Light Sect to suspect sabotage. After reaching the Late Golden Core stage, he stopped cultivating and planned to hunt sect disciples, but spotted a familiar Nascent Soul cultivator lurking nearby.

• Su Hao attracted Dragon Vein Spiritual Energy through the Nine Palaces Profound Phoenix Array, diverting it from the Dragon Vein Pool and alarming its cultivators.
• Lin Ziyi and the other disciples reported the weakening energy, and Shi Zuxuan ordered them detained while he tried to contact the Sect Master.
• A weak Fortune Golden Dragon emerged near Su Hao, fled when it sensed his thoughts of refining it, and left him to resume cultivating.
• Su Hao reached the Late Golden Core stage after half a month, then emerged and gave Little Cai a large batch of Spirit Soothing Pills.
• Su Hao decided to pause his Dragon Vein cultivation and hunt evil sect disciples for their Talent Power, but his Sword Spirit spotted a scantily dressed Nascent Soul cultivator hiding near Phoenix Perch Mountain.

Su Hao killed Lan Yingying and secretly hunted evil disciples across the Golden Light Sect before confronting Chou Tianlong, the Great Gan Dynasty’s retired emperor, who had come to avenge Chou Lanjian. Su Hao revealed himself as Chou Lanjian’s killer and unleashed a devastating sword strike, then devoured Chou Tianlong’s True Dragon Son of Heaven talent.

• Su Hao emerged from concealment and killed Lan Yingying, destroying her Nascent Soul and devouring her Joyful Heart Lotus talent.
• Jiang Kongyi and the other elders investigated Lan Yingying’s death, kept it secret, and activated the sect array to search for the killer.
• Su Hao patrolled the sect in secret, killed more than a hundred disciples whose evil deeds he witnessed, and gained several talents and attribute increases.
• Su Hao spotted Chou Tianlong approaching the Golden Light Sect and identified him as Chou Lanjian’s ancestor, who had come to demand justice.
• Su Hao revealed that he was Chou Lanjian’s killer and attacked Chou Tianlong with Three Thousand Azure Nether, devastating the area around the sect’s mountain gate.
• Su Hao devoured Chou Tianlong’s True Dragon Son of Heaven talent.

After killing Chou Tianlong, Su Hao gained a protective artifact and settled the Little Golden Dragon in his cave abode while Yu Xuanji began awakening her talent. The Golden Light Sect mobilized its forces against a mysterious enemy, and Su Hao learned that the sect considered him the approaching calamity.

• Qin Feng's clone ordered the Golden Light Sect to fully activate its protective formation and gather its cultivators after Chou Tianlong's death.
• Su Hao devoured Talent Power and received the low-grade Innate Profound Artifact Esteemed Heaven Python Robe.
• Su Hao let the Little Golden Dragon stay in his cave abode and explained its origins to Little Cai.
• Su Hao discovered white ribbons wrapping Yu Xuanji in a cocoon and concluded that her talent was awakening.
• Lin Daosheng and Lin Ziyi told Su Hao that the sect had summoned its disciples to resist the mysterious expert who had killed Lan Yingying and Chou Tianlong.

Su Hao drained the Spiritual Energy from the Golden Light Sect’s thirteen dragon veins and advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm while the sect’s leaders prepared for an imagined enemy. He joined the gathered sect members in the main hall, where the Eight Desolations Treasure Mirror began acting strangely after he arrived.

• Lin Ziyi and Lin Daosheng told Su Hao that the sect feared a mysterious powerhouse and urged him to help defend the Golden Light Sect.
• Su Hao sent Little Golden Dragon to draw in the remaining Spiritual Energy of all thirteen dragon veins, then absorbed it, further weakening the sect’s grand array.
• Su Hao digested the dragon-vein energy and advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Su Hao went to the main hall, where Jiang Kongyi had gathered the Golden Light Sect’s forces and said Qin Feng was refining the Myriad Souls Pagoda.
• The Eight Desolations Treasure Mirror trembled and revealed a blood-colored pupil after Su Hao entered the main hall.

Jiang Kongyi exposed Su Hao’s hidden talents and Early Nascent Soul cultivation with the Eight Desolations Treasure Mirror, which shattered under the strain. Qin Feng and the Golden Light Sect tried to seize Su Hao as the Myriad Souls Pagoda’s Artifact Spirit, but Su Hao unleashed a devastating sword attack, leaving Qin Feng to realize he was the Sword Cultivator they had been hunting.

• Jiang Kongyi used the Eight Desolations Treasure Mirror on Su Hao, revealing four extraordinary aptitudes and causing the mirror to explode.
• The Myriad Souls Pagoda arrived at Wan Guang Peak, and Qin Feng ordered Jiang Kongyi to capture Su Hao alive for use as the pagoda’s Artifact Spirit.
• Su Hao shattered the sect’s protective formation with the Three Thousand Azure Nether Sword Dao and killed or gravely wounded most of the Golden Light Sect’s cultivators, while sparing Lin Ziyi and Lin Daosheng.
• Lin Daosheng fled with Lin Ziyi, Jiang Kongyi survived with a severed arm, and Qin Feng recognized Su Hao as the Sword Cultivator who had killed Lan Yingying and Chou Tianlong.