Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen tried to discourage Tang Mu’s feelings by revealing the gulf between their cultivation and his ambitions, then gave her pills to help her advance. After Tang Mu left in tears, Jiang Chen turned to refining the abundant Spirit Herbs he had obtained.

• Jiang Chen invited Tang Mu into his courtyard and served her Fourth-tier Spirit Tea, which astonished her.
• Jiang Chen revealed that he had reached the Martial King Realm, First Level, and told Tang Mu he hoped to leave the Great Zhou Dynasty for a stronger sect.
• Jiang Chen gave Tang Mu top-grade pills and two Breaking Sect Pills, hoping she would focus on cultivating instead of pursuing him.
• Tang Mu asked whether Jiang Chen liked Long Qingyao, and Jiang Chen said they were good friends; Tang Mu left in tears, resolving to cultivate properly.
• After Tang Mu left, Jiang Chen began refining large quantities of top-grade pills with his newly abundant Spirit Herbs.

Tang Yi confronted Jiang Chen after mistaking Tang Mu’s sadness for the result of him bullying her. Jiang Chen revealed his Martial King Realm strength and defeated Tang Yi, leaving her humiliated and furious.

• Tang Yi visited Tang Mu and questioned her about her sadness, then assumed Jiang Chen had upset her.
• Tang Mu insisted Jiang Chen was not to blame, but Tang Yi set off to confront him anyway.
• Tang Yi demanded to know whether Jiang Chen had bullied Tang Mu, and he admitted his words might have affected her mood.
• Tang Yi attacked Jiang Chen, but his true qi shield revealed that he was a Martial King Realm, First Level expert.
• Jiang Chen repelled Tang Yi’s palm and kicked her to the ground, humiliating her.

After Tang Yi attacked Jiang Chen and was easily defeated, Long Qingyao visited him and asked him to sell Tianyun Sect entry quotas for the newly appeared Wind and Cloud Secret Realm. Jiang Chen agreed to sell sixty quotas, and Long Qingyao planned to enter the realm herself in search of a legendary Tenth-order Array Master’s inheritance.

• Tang Mu arrived to find Tang Yi injured after fighting Jiang Chen, apologized for her sister, and led her away when Jiang Chen dismissed them.
• Jiang Chen returned to refining pills, and two days later Long Qingyao came to see him after emerging from secluded cultivation.
• Jiang Chen noticed that Long Qingyao had advanced to the Martial Grandmaster Realm, Sixth Level, and she remarked on his rise to the Martial King Realm, First Level.
• Long Qingyao told Jiang Chen that the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm had appeared and asked him to sell Tianyun Sect entry quotas using the map fragment he had taken from Yinluo Sect.
• Jiang Chen agreed to sell Tianyun Sect sixty quotas for five hundred thousand spirit stones each, and Long Qingyao said she would enter the realm to seek the Tenth-order Array Master’s inheritance.

Jiang Chen arranged for Long Qingyao to help sell extra entry spots for the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm, then left Tianyun Sect to visit the Jiang Family in Yunluo City. He arrived to find the family’s businesses thriving and went to meet its higher-ups.

• Jiang Chen asked Long Qingyao to reserve a spot for himself and sell the extra Wind and Cloud Secret Realm spots, but she refused payment and offered to help.
• Jiang Chen said he planned to visit Yunluo City and the Jiang Family, and Long Qingyao warned him to be careful of the Yinluo Sect.
• After Long Qingyao reported Jiang Chen’s agreement to Yuan Lin, she planned to use the next seven days to attempt a breakthrough to Martial Grandmaster Realm, Seventh Level.
• Jiang Chen left Tianyun Sect, and Li Xingyun decided there was no need to worry too much about him.
• Jiang Chen reached Yunluo City, where Xiao Qiu told him the Jiang Family’s shops were doing well and they were preparing to open another branch.
• Xiao Qiu led Jiang Chen from the pill shop to the Jiang Family’s main residence so he could meet the higher-ups.

Jiang Chen returned to the Jiang Family and gave it more than a thousand bottles of peak-quality pills before heading back to Tianyun Sect. He then joined the sect’s disciples on their journey to the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm, where a thousand geniuses would compete for treasures.

• Jiang Chen reunited with Jiang Yunfeng and learned that his father and several Jiang Family elders had advanced their cultivation.
• Jiang Chen gave Jiang Yunfeng more than a thousand bottles of peak-quality pills for the Jiang Family to use and sell.
• Jiang Chen returned to Tianyun Sect, where Long Qingyao had arranged the sale of his secret realm entry spots and delivered the spirit stones to him.
• Li Xingyun briefed the participating disciples on the two-month entry period, the dangers, the resource-sharing requirement, and the rewards for the top five.
• Jiang Chen and the Tianyun Sect party traveled by flying ship to Longjiang Prefecture and arrived at the crowded Wind and Cloud Secret Realm region.

The Tianyun Sect arrived at the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm with Jiang Chen, while the Yinluo Sect prepared to have its disciples kill him and seize resources. The Taiyuan Sect then arrived, and its True Disciple Li Yun challenged Jiang Chen to a Life and Death Battle, citing a grudge involving the Song Family of the Yunluo Sect.

• The Tianyun Sect arrived, and Long Qingyao collected the tokens from the geniuses who had bought entry spots.
• Luo Tian told a Yinluo Sect elder that their twelve True Disciples would kill Jiang Chen and gather treasures in the secret realm.
• The Taiyuan Sect arrived, bringing the number of gathered map fragments to nine, and its True Disciple Li Yun approached Jiang Chen.
• Li Yun challenged Jiang Chen to a Life and Death Battle, prompting Li Xingyun to demand an explanation from Taiyuan Sect Master Yan Ming.
• Li Yun asked Jiang Chen whether he remembered the Song Family of the Yunluo Sect.

Li Yun challenged Jiang Chen to a Life and Death Battle to avenge Song Qingyue, his former fiancée, whom Jiang Chen had killed while destroying the Song Family. Jiang Chen accepted, and the two prepared to fight as the gathered sects watched.

• Li Yun revealed that Song Qingyue had saved him, become his fiancée, and died when Jiang Chen destroyed the Song Family.
• Jiang Chen recounted Song Qingyue's attempt to save herself by seducing him, provoking Li Yun and the Taiyuan Sect disciples.
• Li Yun taunted Jiang Chen into accepting a Life and Death Battle, and Jiang Chen agreed on the condition that experts from both sects stayed out of it.
• Yan Ming and Li Xingyun ordered their forces to retreat while Yan Ming postponed bringing out the tenth map until the battle ended.
• Luo Tian told Yinluo Sect disciples to join forces with Taiyuan Sect against Jiang Chen if he won, and to seek Jiang Chen's Demonic Soul Blade if Li Yun killed him.
• Jiang Chen and Li Yun faced off, with Li Yun confident that his Martial King Realm, Third Level strength would defeat Jiang Chen's First Level cultivation.

Jiang Chen nearly defeated Li Yun in their Life and Death Battle, but Yan Ming and other Taiyuan Sect experts intervened and injured Jiang Chen. The fight ended with Yan Ming declaring a draw, and Jiang Chen challenged the Taiyuan Sect's disciples to settle matters in the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm.

• Li Yun attacked Jiang Chen with Sea Cloud Storm Slash, but Jiang Chen destroyed the Sword Qi storm with fireballs and drove Li Yun into a sea of flames.
• Jiang Chen summoned a Flame Dragon that charged at Li Yun, prompting Yan Ming to intervene and Li Xingyun to block him.
• A Taiyuan Sect expert tried to save Li Yun and struck Jiang Chen with a palm print, but Jiang Chen countered with Demonic Soul Slash and was thrown back by the blast, spitting blood.
• Yan Ming ended the competition as a draw, while Li Xingyun condemned the Taiyuan Sect for breaking the rules and attacking Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen stopped Li Xingyun from continuing the argument and challenged the Taiyuan Sect's disciples to a proper fight in the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm.

After Taiyuan Sect tried to kill Jiang Chen, he declared a life-and-death battle against its disciples in the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm, and both sects agreed to the conflict. Jiang Chen urged Tianyun Sect’s weaker disciples to stay out and offered to compensate them, leaving Li Xingyun wondering where Jiang Chen had obtained so many spirit stones.

• Jiang Chen declared war on every Taiyuan Sect disciple who entered the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm.
• Yan Ming challenged Tianyun Sect to accept a sect-wide life-and-death battle, and Li Xingyun agreed on behalf of Tianyun Sect.
• Luo Tian instructed Yinluo Sect’s True Disciples to join forces with Taiyuan Sect and prioritize recovering the Demonic Soul Blade.
• Jiang Chen reassured Long Qingyao and apologized to his fellow disciples for involving them in the conflict.
• Jiang Chen urged disciples below the Martial King Realm to stay out of the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm and offered to refund their entry costs and give each of them one million spirit stones.
• Li Xingyun questioned how Jiang Chen could afford to compensate the disciples.

Jiang Chen entered the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm and set out to meet Long Qingyao, but an invisible demonic beast began stalking him across the plain. The beast remained hidden as it pursued him, leaving Jiang Chen uneasy about the presence he kept sensing.

• Li Xingyun allowed Long Qingyao to enter the secret realm after inspecting the contents of her storage bag.
• Jiang Chen gave Li Xingyun his spirit stones to distribute, sold the newly available entry spots, and entered the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm when the teleportation gate opened.
• Jiang Chen appeared alone on a mist-covered plain and used his positioning treasure to locate Long Qingyao to the southeast.
• Jiang Chen sensed something following him but could not see it, then continued toward Long Qingyao while staying alert.
• An Invisible Demonic Beast pursued Jiang Chen, and he sensed its aura again without discovering what was tracking him.

Jiang Chen killed an Invisible Leopard and continued through the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm, gathering spirit medicines as he searched for Long Qingyao. After avoiding a powerful Red Demon Pig, he encountered a temporary group that included Yinluo Sect disciples plotting against the others.

• Jiang Chen wounded an Invisible Leopard with an arrow, exposed its invisibility, and killed it with his saber.
• Jiang Chen absorbed the Invisible Leopard's blood-qi energy while holding back his cultivation to strengthen his body.
• Jiang Chen gathered valuable spirit medicines as he traveled for two days, then entered a mountain region without finding Long Qingyao or anyone else.
• Jiang Chen spotted a Sixth-order Red Demon Pig guarding a valley with two thousand-year-old spirit medicines and cautiously retreated.
• Jiang Chen met a seventeen-person temporary group, and a True Disciple of the Yinluo Sect recognized him; the two Yinluo Sect disciples secretly planned to kill the others once their sect companions arrived.

Jiang Chen fled from Yinluo Sect disciples and their allies after they ambushed him with Sixth-order Spirit Talismans. He lured the pursuers into a valley and shot a Nebula Arrow at the sleeping Red Demon Pig to draw it into the fight.

• Yang Jiong and Chai Chi offered a fifty-million-spirit-stone bounty for Jiang Chen and attacked him with Sixth-order Spirit Talismans.
• Jiang Chen survived the blast with injuries, then escaped as seventeen pursuers chased him.
• Jiang Chen used Lightning Flash Steps and took healing pills while leading the pursuers toward the Red Demon Pig’s valley.
• Jiang Chen found the Red Demon Pig asleep and fired a Nebula Arrow at its rump before fleeing the spot.

Jiang Chen escaped the Yinluo Sect pursuers by luring them toward a Red Demon Pig, then recovered from his injuries and advanced to the Second Level of the Martial King Realm. He found Long Qingyao under attack by Man-eating Vines and rescued her with flames.

• Jiang Chen shot the Red Demon Pig with a Nebula Arrow, causing it to attack Yang Tong and the others as he escaped.
• The Red Demon Pig killed all but Yang Tong, Chai Chi, and three Martial King Realm geniuses, while the survivors blamed Jiang Chen and spread a fifty-million-spirit-stone bounty on him.
• Jiang Chen hid in a cave, healed his injuries, and advanced to the Second Level of the Martial King Realm after three days.
• Jiang Chen followed his positioning treasure for two days and found Long Qingyao fighting Man-eating Vines.
• Jiang Chen burned the Man-eating Vines with a sheet of flame, and Long Qingyao greeted him with joy.

Jiang Chen and Long Qingyao fought through man-eating vines to obtain a five-thousand-year Ganoderma, but a Gray Rock Python guarding it attacked them. Jiang Chen knocked the python away and began harvesting the Ganoderma while Long Qingyao struggled to defend herself, ending with her activating an Ice Seal Talisman.

• Long Qingyao showed Jiang Chen the five-thousand-year Ganoderma and agreed to give him half if he helped obtain it.
• Jiang Chen used Pill Fire while Long Qingyao attacked with Sword Qi, clearing the man-eating vines at the cliff’s base.
• A concealed Gray Rock Python attacked Jiang Chen, who struck it with Blazing Sun Palm and knocked it down.
• Jiang Chen began cutting the Ganoderma from the cliff while the surviving python turned its attack on Long Qingyao.
• Long Qingyao blocked the python with an Azure Cloud Shield, but its tail shattered the shield and sent her flying.
• Long Qingyao activated a Fifth Tier High-grade Ice Seal Talisman against the Gray Rock Python.

Jiang Chen and Long Qingyao defeated a Gray Rock Python and shared a six-thousand-year lingzhi to raise their cultivation. Jiang Chen reached Martial King Realm, Third Level, while Long Qingyao broke through to Martial King Realm, First Level, and was astonished by Jiang Chen’s progress.

• Long Qingyao froze the Gray Rock Python with a talisman, and Jiang Chen picked the six-thousand-year lingzhi before killing the hibernating python with Demonic Soul Slash.
• Jiang Chen offered Long Qingyao the python’s corpse, which she refused, and they split the lingzhi evenly in a secluded cave.
• Jiang Chen refined the lingzhi and other resources over four days, reaching Martial King Realm, Third Level, but realized his body needed strengthening before he could safely force further breakthroughs.
• Long Qingyao refined her share over seven days and advanced from Martial Grandmaster Realm, Seventh Level, to Martial King Realm, First Level.
• Long Qingyao congratulated Jiang Chen on his cultivation, then was shocked to learn he had reached Martial King Realm, Third Level.

Jiang Chen reunited with Long Qingyao, and they discussed their cultivation and the danger posed by Yinluo Sect’s Sixth-order Spirit Talismans. Long Qingyao gave him ten talismans, and they prepared to decide where to search for opportunities next.

• Jiang Chen told Long Qingyao that he had reached the third level of the Martial King Realm, and she asked him to call her Qingyao.
• Jiang Chen warned Qingyao that two Yinluo Sect disciples had injured him with Sixth-order Spirit Talismans, though he had recovered.
• Qingyao offered Jiang Chen ten of her Sixth-order Spirit Talismans, and he accepted them after she insisted.
• Jiang Chen asked Qingyao where they should go next in the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm.

Long Qingyao revealed that her map might lead to the tomb of a Tenth-order Array Master, whose dangerous trials could grant a powerful legacy. As she and Jiang Chen searched the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm, they encountered a Mystic Orchid Fruit tree and thirteen bounty hunters, whom Jiang Chen killed in a single attack.

• Long Qingyao explained that a hand-drawn map could lead them to a Tenth-order Array Master's tomb and warned that its trials were deadly.
• Jiang Chen and Long Qingyao continued through the secret realm and found a Mystic Orchid Fruit tree bearing more than a hundred fruits.
• Thirteen geniuses from the Chen Lineage arrived, recognized Jiang Chen, and planned to claim the Yinluo Sect's fifty-million-spirit-stone bounty.
• Chen Tong ordered the group to attack Jiang Chen and Long Qingyao and seize the fruit, suspecting a guardian beast might be in a nearby cave.
• Jiang Chen used Ghost Shadow Steps and the Hegemonic Blade Art to kill Chen Tong and all twelve other Chen Lineage disciples.

Jiang Chen and Long Qingyao gathered Mystic Orchid Fruits before responding to a distress signal from Tianyun Sect disciples. Jiang Chen entered a valley and learned that the wounded disciples had been trapped as bait to lure him into an ambush by the Taiyuan Sect, Yinluo Sect, and other forces.

• Jiang Chen killed the Chen family cultivators, collected their storage bags, and shared the Mystic Orchid Fruits with Long Qingyao after killing a Stone-Eating Rat.
• Jiang Chen and Long Qingyao received a distress signal and hurried toward the endangered Tianyun Sect disciples despite suspecting it was a trap.
• Jiang Chen told Long Qingyao to wait outside the valley while he went in to check on the disciples.
• Jiang Chen found Tang Long and four other wounded Tianyun Sect disciples, who explained that their enemies had trapped them to draw Jiang Chen in.
• Tang Long told Jiang Chen that the other Tianyun Sect disciples had fled in a separate group and were being pursued.

Jiang Chen and Tang Long’s group were surrounded by Yinluo Sect, Taiyuan Sect, and other bounty hunters, but Jiang Chen used his bow, Flame Rain, and blade qi to open a path for his companions. Tang Long and the others escaped the valley, leaving Jiang Chen surrounded by the enemy.

• Jie Changsheng and Jiao Fan led more than two hundred enemies to surround Jiang Chen and the Tianyun Sect disciples for the bounty on their heads.
• Jiang Chen promised to protect the others and opened the battle by shooting down eighteen enemies with his Azure Cloud Bow.
• Jiang Chen unleashed Flame Rain, setting more than thirty enemies ablaze and creating a gap in the encirclement.
• Jiang Chen told Tang Long and the others to escape through the gap, then used Blade Qi Across to kill seven enemies who tried to stop them.
• Tang Long and the others escaped the valley with Jiang Chen’s help, while Jiang Chen remained surrounded.

Jiang Chen fought off the Yinluo Sect and Taiyuan Sect forces inside the valley, then escaped to the entrance, where he and the Tianyun Sect disciples struck their pursuers with a volley of Sixth-order Spirit Talismans. Jiang Chen and the others fled while the enemy was scattered and the front ranks lay dead.

• Jie Changsheng and the Yinluo Sect disciples attacked Jiang Chen with Sixth-order Spirit Talismans, but Jiang Chen blocked them with defensive talismans from Long Qingyao.
• Jiang Chen used Magic Dragon Hand strengthened by Sky Annihilation Strike to send more than twenty cultivators flying, then blocked another talisman barrage at great cost to his body.
• As Jiao Fan and the others pressed their attack, Jiang Chen used Ghost Shadow Steps and his blade to break through the encirclement and race toward the valley entrance.
• Jiang Chen emerged to find Long Qingyao, Tang Long, and the regrouped Tianyun Sect disciples waiting outside.
• Jiang Chen and the others activated more than a dozen Sixth-order Spirit Talismans against the pursuers at the entrance, killing the front ranks and scattering the rest.
• Jiang Chen and the Tianyun Sect group used the attack to escape.