Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen defeated Li Heng and killed Elder Xiao of the Yinluo Sect, revealing his strength to the gathered forces. After the Demonic Soul Blade exposed his identity as a Tianyun Sect disciple, Jiang Chen removed his disguise and prepared to leave no witnesses.

• Jiang Chen defeated Li Heng with one strike and taunted him as the watching forces recognized his power.
• Elder Xiao challenged Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen overpowered him with the Hegemonic Blade Art and knocked his saber from his hand.
• Jiang Chen cut through Elder Xiao's soft armor and killed him with a second slash, enraging Chen Jiu and the Yinluo Sect.
• The onlookers recognized Jiang Chen's weapon as the Demonic Soul Blade and identified him as Jiang Chen of the Tianyun Sect.
• Jiang Chen removed his face covering and resolved to kill everyone present, unaware that the Canghai Sect and Tianyun Sect were observing from nearby.

Jiang Chen revealed himself as a Tianyun Sect disciple and faced the Yinluo Sect and other forces, who attacked him together. He slaughtered more than seventy Martial Grandmaster Realm fighters, while the Tianyun Sect watched and prepared to intervene if his life was endangered.

• Wang Chuqing and the watching sects recognized Jiang Chen, while Tianyun Sect elders decided to observe his strength before stepping in.
• Elder Chen questioned Jiang Chen about the missing Yinluo Sect team, and Jiang Chen admitted he had killed them.
• Elder Chen ordered the gathered forces to attack Jiang Chen together, but Jiang Chen used Traceless Steps to evade their attacks and cut through their ranks.
• Jiang Chen unleashed Blade Qi Across, killing more than thirty Martial Grandmaster Realm fighters and wounding several Martial King Realm experts.
• Jiang Chen killed more than seventy Martial Grandmaster Realm cultivators, while his Red Scale Soft Armor protected him from serious injury; the remaining fighters hid behind the twelve Martial King Realm experts.

Jiang Chen used Flame Rain to set his enemies ablaze, then killed the twelve Martial King Realm experts with Draw Sword Slash empowered by Secret Art Heaven Annihilation Strike. After absorbing what blood-qi remained in the burned corpses, he found storage bags scattered across the battlefield and prepared to claim their treasures.

• Elder Chen and the other forces charged Jiang Chen, but his Red Scale Soft Armor had protected him from their attacks.
• Jiang Chen unleashed Flame Rain, setting the Martial Grandmaster Realm cultivators and the twelve Martial King Realm experts on fire.
• Jiang Chen struck the disoriented Martial King Realm experts with Draw Sword Slash enhanced by Secret Art Heaven Annihilation Strike, killing all twelve.
• Jiang Chen used the Sky Devouring Demonic Dragon Art to absorb the remaining blood-qi from the corpses, but the flames had burned away much of it.
• Jiang Chen spotted the storage bags left by more than a hundred people and turned his attention to the loot.

After defeating the Yinluo Sect experts, Jiang Chen distrusted the Tianyun Sect and Canghai Sect members who had watched the fight, then counted his enormous spoils in a safe city. He returned to Tianyun Sect just before the Core Disciple examination and learned that Long Qingyao had come looking for him twice.

• Elder Fang of Tianyun Sect and Elder Chen of Canghai Sect assured Jiang Chen they meant him no harm and praised his strength, but Jiang Chen collected the spoils and left alone.
• Jiang Chen rented a courtyard in another city and counted more than sixty-four million spirit stones, plus valuable medicines, materials, pills, and spirit weapons.
• Jiang Chen decided to return to Tianyun Sect for the Core Disciple examination and arrived the following day.
• Jiang Dong told Jiang Chen he had waited in his courtyard because the examination was two days away and that Long Qingyao had come looking for him twice.
• Jiang Chen asked Jiang Dong why Long Qingyao had come to see him.

Jiang Chen considered Long Qingyao’s feelings but remained wary of love after Liu Yun’s betrayal and focused on revenge and cultivation. He registered for the Core Disciple promotion examination, confident he could easily qualify.

• Jiang Dong suggested Long Qingyao liked Jiang Chen and urged him to take the initiative, while Jiang Chen struggled to believe it.
• Jiang Chen gave Jiang Dong a Breaking Sect Pill and told him to cultivate toward the Martial Grandmaster Realm.
• Jiang Chen reflected on Liu Yun’s betrayal, resolved to prioritize revenge, and remembered his promise to avenge his master.
• Jiang Chen learned that Elder Huo had left the Jiang Family after asking them to burn incense at his friend’s grave.
• Jiang Chen registered for the Core Disciple promotion examination, which required a top-thirty finish among Inner Sect Disciples.

Jiang Chen and Long Qingyao registered for Tianyun Sect’s Core Disciple advancement assessment and grew closer as they talked about their recent cultivation and battles. After they parted, a powerful man in black blocked a Tianyun Sect disciple on the road, leaving the disciple in danger.

• Jiang Chen met Long Qingyao while they registered for the Core Disciple advancement assessment and saw that she had reached the Martial Grandmaster Realm, Third Level.
• Jiang Chen and Long Qingyao walked together, discussed their confidence in the assessment, and shared what they had done during the past month.
• Jiang Chen told Long Qingyao he had killed Ghost Mask and many pursuers, including Yinluo Sect members, and she was shocked by his strength.
• A man in black at the Martial King Realm, Fifth Level, appeared on the road and confronted a returning Tianyun Sect disciple at the Martial Grandmaster Realm, Fourth Level.

A Yinluo Sect expert killed Lin Jun and infiltrated the Tianyun Sect to assassinate Jiang Chen and reclaim the Demonic Soul Blade. At the Core Disciple promotion examination, Jiang Chen faced Chen Sheng and easily blocked his opening attack, leaving Chen Sheng furious and ready to continue fighting.

• A Yinluo Sect Martial King Realm expert killed Lin Jun, disguised himself as the disciple, and entered the Tianyun Sect to target Jiang Chen.
• The sect elder announced the examination rules, and the registered disciples drew lots for their elimination matches.
• Jiang Chen drew lot number seven and was paired against Chen Sheng, a Martial Grandmaster Realm, Third Level disciple confident in his swordsmanship.
• Chen Sheng attacked Jiang Chen with the first form of the Four Seasons Sword Art, but Jiang Chen's true-qi shield stopped the Sword Qi without damage.
• Jiang Chen challenged Chen Sheng to show his remaining strength, and Chen Sheng angrily vowed to prove himself.

Jiang Chen effortlessly defeated Chen Sheng and advanced through the assessment while Long Qingyao also won her matches. For the third round, he was paired against the impostor Lin Jun, who had secretly paid to exchange tokens with Jiang Chen’s original opponent so he could face him.

• Jiang Chen shattered Chen Sheng’s sword techniques, knocked him off the arena, and won their match.
• The impostor Lin Jun watched Jiang Chen and planned to kill him, take his storage bag, and escape with a teleportation stone.
• Jiang Chen returned to Long Qingyao, and she defeated her first opponent in two moves.
• Jiang Chen defeated a popular Martial Grandmaster Realm, Fourth Level opponent with one move, while Long Qingyao won her second round.
• Lin Jun paid fifty thousand spirit stones to exchange tokens with Jiang Chen’s scheduled opponent and secured a match against Jiang Chen in the third round.

During the Tianyun Sect’s selection match, a man disguised as Lin Jun revealed Fifth-Level Martial King Realm strength and tried to kill Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen blocked his attack, identified him as an impostor, and insisted on facing him alone, leaving the Elders to stand by for now.

• Jiang Chen entered the arena to face Lin Jun, who threatened him and refused to let him surrender.
• The false Lin Jun unleashed Fifth-Level Martial King Realm power and attacked Jiang Chen with Rakshasa Fist, but Jiang Chen blocked the strike with Magic Dragon Hand.
• The Tianyun Sect Elders questioned Lin Jun’s sudden strength, and Jiang Chen declared that the man was not the real Lin Jun.
• The false Lin Jun drew a large saber and vowed to kill Jiang Chen, prompting a Sixth-Level Martial King Realm Elder to call for the Elders to capture him.
• Jiang Chen asked the Elders to let him fight alone, and they agreed to hold back while warning him to be careful.

Jiang Chen fought Fake Lin Jun, a Fifth Level Martial King Realm assassin, and revealed his Demonization and the power of the Demonic Soul Blade. He identified the attacker as a Yinluo Sect member, but the Tianyun Sect elders mistakenly suspected that the real Lin Jun was a spy.

• Jealous disciples questioned Jiang Chen's decision to fight Lin Jun alone, while Long Qingyao warned him that his opponent was a Fifth Level Martial King Realm expert.
• Fake Lin Jun attacked Jiang Chen with a dagger, but Jiang Chen blocked the strike and blasted him backward with his Demonization power.
• Jiang Chen's Demonic Energy shocked the watching disciples and elders, and he silenced those who accused him of cultivating through human vital essence.
• Fake Lin Jun recognized the unsealed Demonic Soul Blade, leading Jiang Chen to infer that his attacker belonged to the Yinluo Sect.
• Fake Lin Jun denied the accusation, but a Martial King Realm elder concluded that Lin Jun himself was a Yinluo Sect spy, unaware that the man was an impostor.

Jiang Chen defeated and killed Fake Lin Jun after destroying his shadow technique and striking him with a soul attack. The elder declared Jiang Chen the winner and awarded him a Core Disciple spot, while ordering the sect to keep the incident secret.

• Fake Lin Jun summoned four shadows with Death Shadow and sent them to attack Jiang Chen, who destroyed them and forced him back with his blade.
• Jiang Chen used a strengthened Soul Spear to incapacitate Fake Lin Jun just as he tried to escape with a teleportation stone.
• Jiang Chen brought down Demonic Soul Slash and cut Fake Lin Jun in two, shocking the spectators with his strength.
• The Tianyun Sect elder declared Jiang Chen the winner, confirmed his Core Disciple spot, and ordered guards to remove Lin Jun's corpse.
• The elder forbade anyone from spreading news of the incident outside the sect.

Jiang Chen and Long Qingyao secured Core Disciple positions, and the Tianyun Sect’s elders summoned Jiang Chen to ask about his conflict with the Yinluo Sect. Sect Master Li reassured him that they had not brought him in to punish him, leaving Jiang Chen to explain the dispute.

• Jiang Chen returned to his seat after advancing, while other disciples kept their distance and Long Qingyao praised his strength.
• Long Qingyao defeated her third opponent, and Jiang Dong resolved to train harder after seeing Jiang Chen’s strength.
• The Tianyun Sect awarded tokens to the thirty new Core Disciples, then elders called Jiang Chen away after the matches ended.
• Jiang Chen followed the elders to a grand hall, where he met Sect Master Li and more than twenty Martial King Realm experts.
• Sect Master Li told Jiang Chen the elders wanted to hear about his grievances with the Yinluo Sect and were not holding him accountable.

Jiang Chen explained his history with the Yinluo Sect and revealed that the Demonic Soul Blade was the cause of much of their pursuit. Sect Master Li returned the blade, warned Jiang Chen against provoking the Yinluo Sect, and promised to promote him to True Disciple when the time was right.

• Jiang Chen recounted how he obtained the Demonic Soul Blade and described the Yinluo Sect's repeated attempts to kill him.
• Sect Master Li asked to examine the Demonic Soul Blade, and Jiang Chen handed it over without hesitation.
• Sect Master Li examined the blade, recognized its seals and power, then returned it to Jiang Chen.
• Sect Master Li promised Tianyun Sect would protect Jiang Chen within its territory and cautioned him not to act recklessly or provoke a war with the Yinluo Sect.
• Jiang Chen agreed to Sect Master Li's warning while privately resolving to retaliate against the Yinluo Sect himself.
• Sect Master Li dismissed Jiang Chen and said he would arrange his promotion to True Disciple when the timing was suitable.

After Tianyun Sect chose not to escalate its conflict with Yinluo Sect, Jiang Chen reassured Long Qingyao and vowed to make Yinluo Sect pay when he grew stronger. Tang Mu then visited him after joining Tianyun Sect as an Inner Sect Disciple, and told him about her powerful siblings.

• Jiang Chen left the elders’ meeting and returned to his courtyard after Tianyun Sect decided to let the conflict with Yinluo Sect die down.
• Long Qingyao and the others welcomed Jiang Chen, and he explained the sect’s decision while promising not to let Yinluo Sect’s repeated attempts on his life go unanswered.
• Jiang Chen and his companions shared a meal to celebrate his and Long Qingyao’s promotion to Core Disciples before they left.
• Tang Mu arrived at Jiang Chen’s courtyard and revealed that she had joined Tianyun Sect as an Inner Sect Disciple.
• Tang Mu told Jiang Chen that her sister Tang Yi was a Core Disciple and her brother Tang Long was a True Disciple at Martial King Realm, offering their names as protection.

Jiang Chen left Tianyun Sect to seek missions and trouble for the Yinluo Sect, then reached Beihai Prefecture City and went shopping for powerful spirit weapons. The chapter ended as a merchant-house attendant prepared to show him the Fourth-tier weapons he requested.

• Tang Mu offered to have her siblings Tang Long and Tang Yi help Jiang Chen if he ran into trouble, and Jiang Chen accepted her goodwill.
• Jiang Chen decided to leave Tianyun Sect to gather resources and stir up trouble for the Yinluo Sect.
• Jiang Chen passed the sect’s stricter identity inspection and left, while Sect Master Li and the elders learned of his departure and chose not to send anyone after him.
• Jiang Chen arrived in Beihai Prefecture City a day later and entered a large merchant house to buy Fourth-tier Spirit Weapons or better.
• A merchant-house attendant welcomed Jiang Chen and recognized him as a major customer when he asked for high-tier weapons.

Jiang Chen visited the trading company to buy stronger weapons and supplies for facing powerful enemies. He purchased a bow, a blade, and arrows, then gave Qingyue a list of additional goods to prepare.

• Qingyue led Jiang Chen to the high-tier Spirit Weapon area, where he chose the Fourth-tier High-grade Blue Cloud Bow for 1.4 million Spirit Stones.
• Jiang Chen also bought the Fourth-tier High-grade Azure Moon Blade as an auxiliary weapon.
• Jiang Chen examined the Star Cloud Iron Nebula Arrows and ordered a thousand of them.
• Jiang Chen handed Qingyue a list of additional Spirit Medicines and materials, and she asked him to pay for the weapons and arrows before preparing the rest.

Jiang Chen bought supplies from the trading houses but could not find Dragon Beard Grass or Sea Soul Grass. He accepted a dangerous mission to slay a fifth-tier peak flood dragon, hoping its bounty and the inland sea might help him obtain rare spirit medicines.

• Jiang Chen paid for his purchases, received a VIP card from Shopkeeper Sun, and learned the trading house lacked Dragon Beard Flowers and Sea Soul Grass.
• Jiang Chen searched more than a dozen trading houses but found neither rare spirit medicine.
• Jiang Chen entered the prefectural city's Mission Hall in disguise and found a bounty mission for a flood dragon that had destroyed ships and eaten people.
• The Mission Hall staff member warned Jiang Chen that the fifth-tier peak flood dragon was extremely dangerous and explained the thirty-thousand-spirit-stone deposit.
• Jiang Chen insisted on taking the mission and prepared to provide his mercenary identification token.

Jiang Chen accepted the Flood Dragon Slaying Mission, then went to the Yinluo Sect's Spirit Medicine Garden to take revenge. He infiltrated the valley and killed its sentries, but two disciples confronted him before he could attack the garden's main guards.

• Jiang Chen paid a thirty-thousand-spirit-stone deposit to accept the Flood Dragon Slaying Mission and bought information about the Yinluo Sect.
• Jiang Chen learned that the Yinluo Sect's Spirit Medicine Garden lay sixty li south of the sect and supplied most of its spirit medicines.
• Two days later, Jiang Chen disguised himself as a Yinluo Sect Core Disciple and killed the six disciples guarding the valley entrance.
• Jiang Chen entered the valley and silently killed five more sentries before reaching the vast spirit medicine fields.
• Two Yinluo Sect disciples noticed Jiang Chen and demanded his name and reason for entering the valley.

Jiang Chen invaded the Yinluo Sect’s Spirit Medicine Garden and slaughtered the disciples guarding it. After absorbing the corpses’ blood-qi and reaching the peak of the Martial Grandmaster Realm, Eighth Level, he hid as five Martial King Realm experts arrived to investigate.

• Jiang Chen killed two Core Disciples, triggering the alarm that summoned the nearby Yinluo Sect disciples and alerted the Martial King Realm guards.
• Jiang Chen used the Hegemonic Blade Art and Traceless Steps to kill dozens of Martial Grandmaster Realm disciples who surrounded him.
• Jiang Chen deflected the disciples’ arrows, then used the Azure Cloud Bow to shoot down those who tried to flee.
• Jiang Chen absorbed the blood-qi from the corpses, reached the peak of the Martial Grandmaster Realm, Eighth Level, and hid nearby.
• Five Martial King Realm experts and more than thirty disciples arrived, found the bodies, and searched for the concealed Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen ambushed Yinluo Sect experts in their Spirit Medicine Garden, then revealed his identity and Demonic Soul Blade as he prepared to retaliate for the sect’s failed assassination attempt. The surviving experts recognized him, and Jiang Chen declared that he intended to destroy the garden and make the Yinluo Sect pay.

• Jiang Chen fired a Nebula Arrow from his Azure Cloud Bow and gravely wounded a Martial King Realm, Third Level Yinluo Sect elder.
• Jiang Chen shot three more arrows at the other Martial King Realm experts, then struck down ten Yinluo Sect disciples carrying bows before they could counterattack.
• Four Yinluo Sect Martial King Realm experts attacked Jiang Chen, but he blocked their techniques with the Hegemonic Blade Art without being injured.
• Jiang Chen revealed the Demonic Soul Blade and entered his demonic transformation, prompting the Yinluo Sect members to recognize him.
• Jiang Chen reminded the Yinluo Sect that its failed attempt to assassinate him had enraged him, and said he would destroy its Spirit Medicine Garden.