Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen encountered Pang Fei, a Blood Fiend Sect prodigy who had secretly cultivated the Blood Sucking Demonic Art, after Pang Fei drained a Spiritual Spring and reached the Martial Venerable Realm, Third Level. They fought to a standstill, and Jiang Chen announced he was about to get serious and kill Pang Fei.

• Pang Fei sensed Jiang Chen approaching and decided to use him to stabilize his newly advanced cultivation by devouring his blood.
• Jiang Chen discovered the drained Spiritual Spring, dismissed Pang Fei, and tried to leave, but Pang Fei demanded that he stay and attacked him.
• Jiang Chen shattered Pang Fei's sword strike with the Demonic Soul Blade and survived unharmed, prompting Pang Fei to unleash his Blood Fiend Power.
• Jiang Chen entered Demonic State and fought Pang Fei through several dozen exchanges, while Pang Fei grew alarmed that he could not overpower the lower-ranked cultivator.
• Jiang Chen said he had things to do, would stop playing around, and was ready to kill Pang Fei.

Jiang Chen badly wounded Pang Fei, but Ancient Yuan Sect’s Li Feiyun arrived and agreed to help Pang Fei in exchange for his fifty-thousand-year-old Blue Patterned Ginseng. Li Feiyun then dismissed Jiang Chen as an easy target, setting up a confrontation between them.

• Jiang Chen used Magic Dragon Possession and the Demonic Soul Blade to overpower Pang Fei, leaving him seriously injured despite his Inner Armor and sacrificed treasure.
• Li Feiyun and another Ancient Yuan Sect cultivator arrived, and Pang Fei identified Li Feiyun as a fellow Martial Venerable Realm, Third Level cultivator.
• Li Feiyun mocked Pang Fei for losing to Jiang Chen, then offered to help defeat Jiang Chen in exchange for Pang Fei’s fifty-thousand-year-old Blue Patterned Ginseng.
• Pang Fei accepted Li Feiyun’s offer, while Jiang Chen challenged their assumption that he would be easy to defeat.
• After learning Jiang Chen came from a small kingdom, Li Feiyun declared that he deserved to die there, and Pang Fei realized Jiang Chen might be under thirty years old.

Jiang Chen easily defeated Li Feiyun and Huang Hao, but Pang Fei drained their blood to recover and escaped using Blood Escape. Pang Fei planned to frame Jiang Chen for their deaths and turn the Ancient Yuan Sect against him.

• Li Feiyun and Huang Hao attacked Jiang Chen with the Ancient Desolate Sword Art, but he injured them with a single Hegemonic Origin Fist strike.
• Li Feiyun and Huang Hao combined their strength against Jiang Chen, but his Magic Dragon Hand shattered their attack and severely wounded them.
• Pang Fei intercepted the wounded men, stabbed them in the neck, and used the Blood Sucking Demonic Art to drain their blood and recover.
• Pang Fei used Blood Escape to flee more than fifty li, leaving Jiang Chen to collect Li Feiyun and Huang Hao’s jade tokens and storage bags.
• Pang Fei decided to blame Jiang Chen for the two deaths and tell the Ancient Yuan Sect that Jiang Chen had killed them.

Jiang Chen became the target of the Tiger Shadow Empire, the Snow Cloud Empire, and the Ancient Yuan Sect after killing several geniuses, then was ambushed by a powerful Blood-Devouring Tree Demon. He fled while badly injured, vowing to return once he grew stronger.

• Pang Fei escaped to recover from his injuries, while Jiang Chen left after releasing Luan Feng, who later told others about Jiang Chen's strength.
• The Tiger Shadow Empire and Snow Cloud Empire searched for Jiang Chen, and the Ancient Yuan Sect spread Pang Fei's portrait of him after learning that he had killed Li Yun and Huang Hao.
• A peak seventh-rank Blood-Devouring Tree Demon ambushed Jiang Chen, and his blade and Pill Fire barely harmed it.
• The tree demon struck Jiang Chen with red light and followed with vines and spikes as he tried to escape.
• Jiang Chen flew away while injured and vowed to return to settle the score once his strength improved.

Jiang Chen escaped the Blood-Devouring Tree Demon but was badly injured and hid when a group from the Snow Cloud Empire arrived searching for him. Two female cultivators concealed his presence from their leader, Shui Yongyuan, and the search party moved on.

• Jiang Chen escaped the Blood-Devouring Tree Demon's reach, then landed to find a secluded place to recover from his injuries.
• Jiang Chen encountered a white-robed woman and a blue-robed woman, who agreed to leave him alone after recognizing his Martial Venerable aura.
• Jiang Chen sensed a group of powerful cultivators approaching and hid in nearby grass.
• Shui Yongyuan showed the two women a portrait of Jiang Chen and questioned them about his whereabouts.
• The white-robed woman and blue-robed woman denied seeing Jiang Chen, and Shui Yongyuan led his group away.

Luo Yue and Luo Xing, disciples of the Illusion Moon Sect, tried to leave the dangerous area after Shui Yongyuan's group departed, while Jiang Chen remained hidden nearby. Wei Fang tracked the women down and attacked their hiding place, leaving them exposed to his advances as Jiang Chen followed in pursuit.

• Luo Yue and Luo Xing revealed they hoped to join one of the Five Great Sects to escape their sect's plans to marry them off for an alliance.
• After Wei Fang suggested the women might know about Jiang Chen, Shui Yongyuan split his group into search teams.
• Wei Fang pursued Luo Yue and Luo Xing using a tiny insect he had secretly placed on Luo Yue, and Jiang Chen followed to protect them.
• Luo Yue sensed Wei Fang's powerful aura and hid with Luo Xing, but Wei Fang struck their hiding place and forced them out.
• Wei Fang told Luo Yue and Luo Xing he wanted to become their man and protect them in the secret realm.

Jiang Chen rescued Luo Yue and Luo Xing from Wei Fang, killing him despite his own injuries. He left with the two women before Wei Fang’s companions arrived, and Shui Yongyuan ordered his group to stay together as they pursued their target.

• Wei Fang captured Luo Yue and Luo Xing with true-qi ropes and threatened them, but Jiang Chen appeared and freed them.
• Jiang Chen killed Wei Fang with a single strike, then aggravated his injuries and absorbed blood-qi from Wei Fang’s corpse to recover.
• Jiang Chen took Wei Fang’s storage bag and left with Luo Yue and Luo Xing before the rest of Wei Fang’s team arrived.
• Wei Fang’s companions found his corpse and notified Shui Yongyuan, who warned everyone not to split up while pursuing their target.

Jiang Chen hid with Luo Yue and Luo Xing in a cave while recovering from his injuries, and Shui Yongyuan's group failed to find them. After more than a day, Jiang Chen had recovered most of his strength, while his pursuers moved on to search elsewhere.

• Jiang Chen escaped with Luo Yue and Luo Xing, then accepted their company as they fled from their pursuers.
• Luo Yue found a cave, where the three hid behind a blocked entrance and Jiang Chen concealed their auras with a formation.
• Jiang Chen introduced himself as a genius from a small dynasty, then began recovering while Luo Yue and Luo Xing cultivated nearby.
• Shui Yongyuan's group searched a wide area, robbing other cultivators but finding no sign of Jiang Chen or his companions.
• After more than a day, Shui Yongyuan's group left to search elsewhere, and Jiang Chen had recovered seventy or eighty percent of his injuries.

After recovering, Jiang Chen escorted Luo Yue and Luo Xing through a dangerous forest while searching for Zhao Ruxue. There, they encountered Jian Wushuang, a renowned sword genius whose strength impressed them.

• Jiang Chen left the cave with Luo Yue and Luo Xing, agreed to escort them, and set out to find Zhao Ruxue first.
• Jiang Chen followed the compass toward Zhao Ruxue and brought the two women into a silent forest filled with black mist and bare, dark trees.
• A swarm of blood bats attacked, but Jiang Chen burned many of them with flames until the rest fled.
• Jiang Chen and the women encountered Jian Wushuang, and Luo Yue explained that the thirty-year-old sword cultivator was a powerful genius from the Ten Directions Sword Emperor's sect.

Jiang Chen challenged Jian Wushuang for the Sacred Sword, a top-tier Saint-grade longsword, despite appearing to be only at the First Level of the Martial Venerable Realm. He left Jian Wushuang injured and shocked by his strength, while the fight over the sword remained unresolved.

• Jian Wushuang ordered Jiang Chen, Luo Yue, and Luo Xing to leave the altar where the Sacred Sword was embedded.
• Jiang Chen declared he would compete for the sword, and Jian Wushuang and three other geniuses turned their attention to him.
• Jiang Chen sent Luo Yue and Luo Xing aside before Jian Wushuang attacked him with a sword strike.
• Jiang Chen blocked Jian Wushuang's strike with a punch, then met his Heavy Sword Chaos Slash with the Demonic Soul Blade.
• Jiang Chen struck Jian Wushuang with Magic Dragon Hand and sent him flying, leaving Jian Wushuang injured and asking who he was.

Jiang Chen defeated four geniuses who joined forces against him to claim the Sacred Sword, killing three of them while Jian Wushuang escaped. He collected the dead men's blood to help open the Demonic Soul Blade's fourth seal, then rejoined Luo Yue and Luo Xing.

• Jiang Chen declared he would defeat everyone competing for the Sacred Sword, and Lou Zichen and the others agreed to join forces against him.
• Jian Wushuang and the other three attacked Jiang Chen with their strongest martial skills, but Jiang Chen's Eight Divisions Heavenly Dragon shattered their attacks and sent them flying.
• Jiang Chen prepared to kill the four, and Jian Wushuang fled before Jiang Chen could reach him.
• Jiang Chen killed Lou Zichen and the other two men with a sweep of the Demonic Soul Blade, while Jian Wushuang escaped into the forest.
• Jiang Chen collected the three men's blood for the Demonic Soul Blade's fourth seal, and Luo Yue and Luo Xing came over to him.

Jiang Chen defeated Jian Wushuang and broke the formation sealing an ancient Blood Demon so he could claim its Saint Sword. The Blood Demon survived in suspended death, emerged weakened, and targeted Jiang Chen and the two nearby women for their blood.

• Jiang Chen told Luo Yue and Luo Xing to stand aside and examined the Saint Sword, learning from a nearby stele that Martial Saint experts had used it to seal a Ninth-Level Blood Demon more than ten thousand years earlier.
• Jiang Chen decided the Blood Demon must be dead and used formation tools to break the seal while Luo Yue and Luo Xing discussed his strength and accomplishments.
• Jiang Chen pulled the Saint Sword free, causing the ground to split open and the Blood Demon to emerge.
• The Blood Demon recognized that Jiang Chen had freed him and announced that he would devour Jiang Chen and then Luo Yue and Luo Xing to replenish his strength.

Jiang Chen used his Pill Fire to drive off the weakened Blood Demon, then arrived with Luo Yue and Luo Xing at a forest of stone pillars. There, he helped a crowd of geniuses by cleaving apart a stone statue guarding an underground entrance.

• The Blood Demon attacked Jiang Chen with Blood Sea Cloud, but Jiang Chen’s Pill Fire destroyed the attack and burned the demon.
• The Blood Demon fled after spending his blood essence to block Jiang Chen’s flames, and Jiang Chen let him escape.
• Jiang Chen took Luo Yue and Luo Xing aboard his flying boat and reached an eerie area filled with stone statues.
• Jiang Chen found over a hundred geniuses battling a giant stone statue that guarded an underground entrance, and he agreed to help them.
• Jiang Chen infused the Eighth-Order Sacred Sword with True Qi and split the stone statue in half with a single Sword Qi strike.

Jiang Chen destroyed the stone statue guarding a secret realm entrance, then left rather than enter with the other cultivators. He found Zhao Ruxue fighting a demonic beast and reunited with her, whereupon she gave him the payment she had promised.

• Jiang Chen cleaved the stone statue apart with his sacred sword, impressing the cultivators gathered at the entrance.
• Jiang Chen declined to enter the secret realm with the others and left with Luo Yue and Luo Xing.
• Jiang Chen and his companions fought off creatures in the eerie forest and reached a mountain range where Zhao Ruxue was battling a giant wolf.
• Jiang Chen struck the giant wolf down from his flying vessel, and Zhao Ruxue was relieved to see him.
• Jiang Chen introduced Luo Yue and Luo Xing to Zhao Ruxue and said he would keep his promise to help her.
• Zhao Ruxue gave Jiang Chen the payment she had promised, and he said he planned to break through to the Second Level of the Martial Venerable Realm.

Jiang Chen absorbed the Dragon Pearl and other treasures, advancing to the Martial Venerable Realm, Second Level, while Zhao Ruxue used his Emperor Breaking Pill to reach the Martial Emperor Realm. After they left their cave, Chun Fengyang’s group surrounded them and demanded their jade tokens and the women, prompting Jiang Chen to confront them as they attacked.

• Jiang Chen gave Zhao Ruxue an Emperor Breaking Pill, and the group secluded themselves in a cave to cultivate.
• Jiang Chen absorbed the Dragon Pearl’s dragon force and other resources, advancing to the Martial Venerable Realm, Second Level.
• Zhao Ruxue broke through to the Martial Emperor Realm, First Level, and consolidated her cultivation before the group left the cave.
• Chun Fengyang and more than thirty cultivators surrounded Jiang Chen and his companions, intending to seize their jade tokens.
• Chun Fengyang demanded Jiang Chen’s tokens and storage bag and threatened to keep the women, but Jiang Chen refused.
• Chun Fengyang and four other Martial Venerable Realm cultivators attacked Jiang Chen, who summoned a gigantic dragon claw.

Jiang Chen killed the cultivators who attacked him, shared jade tokens with Luo Yue, Luo Xing, and Zhao Ruxue, and led them toward the central region. Along the way, he defeated a powerful Black Moon Tiger with his bare hands.

• Jiang Chen killed five Martial Venerable Realm experts with one attack, then cut down the fleeing Martial Emperor Realm cultivators and absorbed their blood-qi.
• Jiang Chen gave Luo Yue, Luo Xing, and Zhao Ruxue ten jade tokens each so they could qualify to join a Great Sect.
• Jiang Chen led the three women toward the central region and warned them that stronger opponents might appear.
• Jiang Chen faced a seventh-tier Black Moon Tiger and knocked it back with a punch.
• Jiang Chen beat the Black Moon Tiger to death with his fists while Luo Yue and the others watched in shock.

Jiang Chen claimed the Black Moon Tiger he had killed, but the Ye Family and Huangyun Imperial Family tried to seize its corpse. After Ye Yun attacked him, Jiang Chen revealed his strength and unleashed blade qi against both groups.

• Jiang Chen invited Luo Yue and the other women to divide up the Black Moon Tiger's remains after collecting its blood.
• Ye Yun of the Ye Family and Huang Fengji of the Huangyun Imperial Family arrived and each claimed the tiger corpse.
• Jiang Chen asserted that the tiger was his spoils of war and warned the two groups to leave.
• Ye Yun attacked Jiang Chen with the Great Dark Palm, but Jiang Chen shattered it with a punch.
• Jiang Chen unleashed Blade Qi Across at the assembled Ye Family and Huangyun Imperial Family members, who dodged and counterattacked.

Jiang Chen used his full strength to defeat Huang Fengji and slaughter many members of the Huangyun Imperial Family after they attacked him. As the Ye Family tried to escape, Jiang Chen sent fire dragons after them.

• Jiang Chen repelled the attackers’ blade energies and explained that he would show no mercy after they tried to seize their spoils.
• Huang Fengji attacked Jiang Chen with an imitation Great Desolate Heaven Wheel, but Jiang Chen shattered its assault with a Heaven Splitting Slash and wounded Huang Fengji.
• Jiang Chen used Ghost Shadow Steps and the Demonic Soul Blade to kill many members of the Huangyun Imperial Family and further injure Huang Fengji.
• A Huangyun Imperial Family guard asked the Ye Family to help Huang Fengji escape, but Ye Yun refused and ordered his people to withdraw.
• Jiang Chen sent several gigantic fire dragons toward the fleeing Ye Family.

Jiang Chen defeated the Ye Family and Huangyun Imperial Family members, gathered their blood and spoils, and left with Luo Yue and the other women. Elsewhere, the Blood Demon recovered his strength by devouring cultivators and prepared to grow strong enough to challenge Jiang Chen’s strange flame.

• Jiang Chen killed the Huangyun Imperial Family guards who tried to stop him, but Huang Fengji escaped with two others.
• Jiang Chen’s flame dragons killed or injured many Ye Family members, and he collected their blood and spoils before leaving with the women.
• Ye Yun regrouped with the surviving Ye Family members and ordered them to contact their clansmen and watch for Jiang Chen.
• The Blood Demon devoured the blood and spiritual energy of a Martial Emperor Realm genius and other cultivators, restoring his injuries and reaching the peak of the Martial Venerable Realm, Fifth Level.
• The Blood Demon planned to keep devouring blood so he could regain Martial Saint Realm strength and reduce the threat posed by Jiang Chen’s strange flame.

Jiang Chen noticed a hidden pursuer following him and the three women, so he protected them and forced the stranger to reveal themselves. The black-clad figure appeared, leaving Jiang Chen facing an unknown opponent.

• Jiang Chen sensed someone secretly following the group but could not locate them with his Spiritual Sense.
• Jiang Chen gave Luo Yue, Zhao Ruxue, and the third woman teleportation stones, hid them in a Hidden Formation, and waited for the pursuer.
• Jiang Chen called out the pursuer and blasted the surrounding area with fireballs when they did not respond.
• A cold, black-clad figure emerged from the destruction, and Jiang Chen addressed them without surprise.