Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen confronted Ye Wuji, a fifth-level Martial Venerable from Dark Nether who had come to claim the Nether Fruit and kill him. Their fight escalated after they traded attacks without a clear victor, and Ye Wuji faced Jiang Chen’s powerful Dragon God Fist with his Black Moon Sword Strike.

• Ye Wuji revealed that Dark Nether had sent him to seize the Nether Fruit and eliminate Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen refused to surrender the fruit, and Ye Wuji attacked with his Blackwater Sword.
• Jiang Chen blocked Ye Wuji’s swift opening strike with the Demonic Soul Blade.
• Ye Wuji unleashed Sword Qi Annihilation, while Jiang Chen countered with Myriad Blade Shadows, and their attacks clashed without either gaining the advantage.
• Jiang Chen launched Dragon God Fist, and Ye Wuji thrust his Blackwater Sword forward with Black Moon Sword Strike to break it.

Jiang Chen defeated and killed Ye Wuji, who refused to reveal how many Dark Nether members had entered the secret realm to hunt him and seize the Nether Fruit. Jiang Chen left with Luo Yue and the other women, while a Dark Nether group learned of Ye Wuji’s death and continued preparing to pursue him.

• Jiang Chen blasted Ye Wuji away, seized him, and demanded to know how many Dark Nether members were in the secret realm.
• Ye Wuji threatened Jiang Chen with Dark Nether’s power but refused to answer after Jiang Chen said he would kill him regardless.
• Jiang Chen snapped Ye Wuji’s neck, shattered his heart, and collected his blood and belongings.
• Luo Yue and the other two women emerged, and Jiang Chen led them away because Dark Nether’s numbers in the secret realm were unknown.
• A Dark Nether group discovered Ye Wuji’s life jade tablet had shattered, but its captain ordered the men to gather and continue their mission to kill Jiang Chen and seize the Nether Fruit.

Jiang Chen gathered jade tokens from weaker geniuses and criticized the Five Great Sects for letting powerful factions prey on newcomers. He then spotted Seventh-tier Pure Flowers at a cliff and flew to claim them while Zhao Ruxue, Luo Yue, and Luo Xing hid.

• Jiang Chen took more than a hundred jade tokens from geniuses of other dynasties but spared their lives.
• Jiang Chen told Zhao Ruxue, Luo Yue, and Luo Xing that he disdained the Five Great Sects and might not join one.
• Jiang Chen and the three women found several Seventh-tier Pure Flowers after a guardian serpent had been killed and rival powers began fighting over them.
• Jiang Chen told the women to hide, put away the flying vessel, and flew toward the cliff to pick the flowers.

Jiang Chen seized the Pure Flower and faced more than a hundred furious geniuses who attacked him. He killed nearly half of them with a single slash, leaving the survivors shocked and backing away.

• Jiang Chen broke the geniuses' attacks, took the Pure Flower, and was surrounded by more than a hundred cultivators.
• Jiang Chen revealed that he came from a small kingdom, prompting the geniuses to insult him and attack together.
• Jiang Chen blocked their combined assault without being injured.
• Jiang Chen unleashed Draw Sword Slash, killing nearly half of his attackers, including seven Martial Venerable Realm experts.
• Jiang Chen dismissed the survivors' outrage, saying that the stronger cultivator claimed ownerless treasures.

Jiang Chen defeated a group of cultivators who tried to seize the Pure Flower, then escorted Luo Yue and Luo Xing to their Illusion Moon Sect companions. He met Fang Yu, who learned his identity as the wanted Jiang Chen.

• Jiang Chen killed several attackers with saber qi, gathered blood and spoils, and left the survivors to flee.
• Luo Yue sensed Illusion Moon Sect disciples to the south, so Jiang Chen flew there with her, Luo Xing, and Zhao Ruxue.
• Jiang Chen reached a group of Illusion Moon Sect disciples, where Luo Yue and Luo Xing reunited with Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu questioned Jiang Chen and dismissed his strength as merely passable before asking his name.
• When Jiang Chen introduced himself, the Illusion Moon Sect disciples recognized him from the portrait and reports circulated by the Snow Cloud Empire.

Fang Yu distanced the Illusion Moon Sect from Jiang Chen after he reunited Luo Yue and Luo Xing with them, fearing his enemies would make them targets. Jiang Chen left without taking offense, and Zhao Ruxue reflected on why she trusted him as they continued on their way.

• Fang Yu questioned Jiang Chen about killing geniuses from major powers, and he said his enemies would need enough strength to kill him.
• Fang Yu thanked Jiang Chen coldly and said the Illusion Moon Sect would part ways with him; he left with Zhao Ruxue.
• Luo Yue questioned Fang Yu's treatment of Jiang Chen, but Fang Yu scolded her and warned her not to discuss him.
• Fang Yu led the Illusion Moon Sect away to search for their missing disciples, while Luo Yue and Luo Xing kept quiet about the ten tokens they had collected.
• Zhao Ruxue asked whether Jiang Chen was angry about the Illusion Moon Sect's coldness, and he said he understood their caution and did not blame them.
• Zhao Ruxue told Jiang Chen she trusted him because of his loyalty and character, though she envied He Yushi for being his wife.

Jiang Chen and Zhao Ruxue investigated a strange yellow light and discovered a vast underground world filled with ruins and dangerous creatures. After thousands of prodigies entered and scattered in search of treasures, Jiang Chen led Zhao Ruxue deeper into the world behind Gou Changsheng’s group.

• Jiang Chen promised to protect Zhao Ruxue until the Genius Trial ended, while warning her not to cause trouble.
• Jiang Chen and Zhao Ruxue followed a strange yellow light to a huge crack, where they learned that an ancient underground world lay below.
• Gou Changsheng gathered the cultivators and led them into the underground world, where the group found ruined buildings and reports of powerful life-forms.
• The human prodigies scattered to search for treasures and quickly killed the demonic beasts they encountered.
• Jiang Chen told Zhao Ruxue to stay close as he followed Gou Changsheng’s group farther into the vast underground world.

Jiang Chen fought through the spiders’ territory and drew the Spider King’s attention after killing several seventh-tier spiders. He held his own against the seventh-tier, eighth-layer beast, but his attacks could not penetrate its tough defenses.

• Jiang Chen joined the battle against the spiders and slaughtered many of the smaller beasts while absorbing blood-qi power.
• Jiang Chen killed several seventh-tier spiders with the Demonic Soul Blade Technique, and onlookers recognized him as the wanted Jiang Chen.
• The Spider King abandoned the other fighters and charged at Jiang Chen, who entered the Entering Demonic State to meet it.
• Jiang Chen burned through the Spider King’s web with Pill Fire and dodged its attacks, but his blade qi could only leave marks on its defenses.
• Jiang Chen continued fighting the Spider King without being injured, though he could not significantly harm it.

Jiang Chen fought the Spider King alone, forced it to advance, and then killed it with an Eighth-tier Spirit Weapon. Afterward, the watching geniuses feared his strength and speculated about his origins.

• Jiang Chen used Magic Dragon Possession to battle the Spider King with his bare hands, but it still sent him flying and wounded him.
• Jiang Chen unleashed Flame Dragon Break, and the Spider King emerged from the flames after shedding its shell and advancing to the Ninth Level of the Seventh Tier.
• Jiang Chen drew an Eighth-tier Saint Sword and killed the charging Spider King with one slash, exhausting much of his true qi.
• Jiang Chen devoured blood and qi from nearby human and spider corpses as the other geniuses watched in shock.
• Gou Changsheng and the other geniuses warned one another not to offend Jiang Chen and speculated that a powerful expert might be supporting him.

Jiang Chen defeated the Spider King and the surrounding spiders, advanced to the Third Level of the Martial Venerable Realm, and left with Zhao Ruxue. Shui Yongyuan then arrived with a force of more than seven hundred people and pursued Jiang Chen, unaware of the warnings about his strength.

• Jiang Chen used the Saint Sword to kill the Spider King and helped the Human Race geniuses wipe out the spiders, while noting the weapon's strain on his body.
• Jiang Chen devoured the spiders' blood-qi and advanced to the Third Level of the Martial Venerable Realm, then collected the remains of the spiders he had killed.
• Gou Changsheng approached Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen ended their conversation and left with Zhao Ruxue.
• Shui Yongyuan arrived with more than seven hundred geniuses after learning Jiang Chen had been spotted, and someone tried to warn him about Jiang Chen's strength.
• Shui Yongyuan dismissed the warning and led his group after Jiang Chen, while the remaining geniuses doubted the pursuers could defeat him.

Jiang Chen and Zhao Ruxue were surrounded by Shui Yongyuan and hundreds of allies seeking revenge, but Jiang Chen dismissed their threat. He unleashed a single blade technique that killed or wounded dozens, leaving the attackers shocked.

• Jiang Chen reassured Zhao Ruxue as they traveled through the underground realm and encountered other wary cultivators.
• Shui Yongyuan and a coalition of experts from several factions surrounded Jiang Chen and Zhao Ruxue.
• Zhao Ruxue clung to Jiang Chen in fear, and he comforted her while promising their enemies could not hurt them.
• Shui Yongyuan accused Jiang Chen of killing their people and ordered everyone to attack.
• Jiang Chen used Demonic Soul Blade's Endless Blade Qi to shatter the attackers' techniques and kill or wound dozens of them.

Jiang Chen slaughtered Shui Yongyuan and the other Martial Venerable Realm geniuses who attacked him, then gathered their blood to unlock the Demonic Soul Blade’s fourth seal. He left with Zhao Ruxue as spectators spread word of his power and the great powers’ likely retaliation.

• Jiang Chen used the Magic Dragon Hand to repel the assembled experts, then entered his demonic state and attacked them with the Demonic Soul Blade.
• Jiang Chen killed Shui Yongyuan and the other Martial Venerable Realm experts, while about a hundred Martial Emperor Realm cultivators escaped.
• Jiang Chen collected the corpses’ storage bags and Martial Venerable Realm blood, completing his blood-collection task for the Demonic Soul Blade’s fourth seal.
• Jiang Chen absorbed blood energy to cultivate, then joined Zhao Ruxue as spectators reacted to his victory and anticipated retaliation from the Five Great Sects.

Jiang Chen and Zhao Ruxue explored an ancient underground city as geniuses gathered and fought over its treasures. Elsewhere, the Blood Demon and Pang Fei killed cultivators to strengthen themselves, while a powerful Green Scaled Poisonous Python blocked the prodigies’ path.

• Geniuses poured into the Underground World and discovered a vast, abandoned ancient city filled with treasures and spirit herbs.
• Jiang Chen and Zhao Ruxue headed deeper into the city as famous prodigies, including Liu Ruyan, Ba Jiuge, and Luan Fenghai, gathered there.
• The Blood Demon reached the seventh level of the Martial Venerable Realm by killing cultivators, while Pang Fei raised his cultivation to the peak of the fifth level through his Blood Sucking Demonic Art.
• Pang Fei vowed to kill Jiang Chen once his strength caught up with him.
• A Green Scaled Poisonous Python swallowed nearby cultivators, forcing Liu Ruyan and the other prodigies to consider killing the formidable beast before continuing.

The Green Scaled Demonic Python overwhelmed the Human Race prodigies, while Jiang Chen watched without intervening. When Jian Wushuang attacked Jiang Chen to avenge his earlier defeat, Jiang Chen sent him flying, and Pang Fei joined Jian Wushuang to fight him.

• The Green Scaled Demonic Python poisoned and swallowed injured prodigies, then sent Liu Ruyan and other fighters flying with its tail.
• Jiang Chen judged the prodigies too weak to defeat the python and declined Zhao Ruxue’s suggestion that he help.
• Jian Wushuang recognized Jiang Chen and charged at him, determined to avenge his previous loss.
• Jiang Chen blocked Jian Wushuang’s sword with the Demonic Soul Blade and sent him flying with a single strike.
• Pang Fei emerged from hiding and offered to join Jian Wushuang in killing Jiang Chen.

Blood Fiend attacked the Green Scaled Poisonous Python and lured it toward Jiang Chen while Jian Wushuang and Pang Fei failed to defeat him. The python charged Jiang Chen as Blood Fiend fled, leaving Jiang Chen to face the beast.

• Jian Wushuang accepted Pang Fei as an ally against Jiang Chen, while Blood Fiend watched from the shadows and decided to stir up trouble.
• Blood Fiend wounded the Green Scaled Poisonous Python with a blood-colored spear, drawing its fury and leading it away from Liu Ruyan and the other geniuses.
• Liu Ruyan and the others rested while Jian Wushuang and Pang Fei attacked Jiang Chen, who sent them flying with his Great Wilderness Palm Seal.
• Jiang Chen prepared to finish Jian Wushuang and Pang Fei, but Blood Fiend arrived with the pursuing python and attacked him with a blood-colored spear.
• Jiang Chen recognized Blood Fiend, blocked his spear, and watched him strike the python again before fleeing and leaving the beast to charge at Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen killed the Green Scaled Demonic Python and then slew Jian Wushuang despite the threat of the Ten Directions Sword Emperor. He turned next to Pang Fei and demanded that he fight, refusing to accept his apology.

• Jiang Chen used the Dragon Emperor Fist and Pill Fire to repel the Green Scaled Demonic Python, then cut off its tail and killed it with the Sky Annihilation Strike.
• Jiang Chen collected the python's core, absorbed its blood-qi, and stopped Jian Wushuang from escaping.
• Blood Demon watched Jiang Chen's victory and planned to advance to the Martial Venerable Realm, Eighth Level before seeking revenge.
• Jiang Chen dismissed Jian Wushuang's warnings about the Ten Directions Sword Emperor and stabbed Jian Wushuang to death with the Demonic Soul Blade.
• Jiang Chen confronted Pang Fei, who apologized, but Jiang Chen rejected his plea and ordered him to fight.

Jiang Chen rejected the Blood Fiend Sect's plea for mercy and trapped Pang Fei when he tried to escape. He killed Pang Fei, while other geniuses weighed the danger of befriending someone who had angered powerful forces.

• The Blood Fiend Sect's Wei Yang asked Jiang Chen to spare Pang Fei and offered compensation, but Jiang Chen refused and threatened anyone who interfered.
• Wei Yang and the others withdrew, and Liu Ruyan and Luan Fenghai discussed Jiang Chen's talent, lack of backing, and the danger of his feud with the Ten Directions Sword Emperor.
• Pang Fei used the Blood Escape Technique, but Jiang Chen's Spiritual Sense barrier restricted his escape to a short distance.
• Jiang Chen struck Pang Fei with the Demonic Soul Blade, shattered his defense, and cut him in two.

After defeating Pang Fei, Jiang Chen hid in a cave with Zhao Ruxue and unlocked the Demonic Soul Blade’s fourth seal. They then reached a vast palace in the Underground World and learned that many cultivators had entered it to seek treasures.

• Jiang Chen defeated Pang Fei, collected his spoils, and left with Zhao Ruxue while the Blood Fiend Sect geniuses withdrew.
• Jiang Chen took Zhao Ruxue to a secluded cave and spent two days unlocking the Demonic Soul Blade’s fourth seal, raising it to a Seventh-grade High-rank Spirit Weapon.
• Jiang Chen and Zhao Ruxue traveled deeper into the Underground World and found a huge palace after seeing signs of battles and abandoned corpses.
• Jiang Chen seized a Martial Emperor Realm, Ninth Level cultivator and questioned him about the missing crowds.
• The cultivator told Jiang Chen that many people had entered the palace seeking treasures, so Jiang Chen released him and prepared to explore the palace with Zhao Ruxue.

Jiang Chen sent Zhao Ruxue out of the Underground World, then entered the palace alone and fought his way through its dangers. After killing five ambushers and a group of Frenzied Corpses, he reached a large hall where many Human Race cultivators had gathered.

• Jiang Chen gave Zhao Ruxue spirit talismans and told her to leave the Underground World, and she went ahead to wait outside.
• Jiang Chen entered the palace and found signs of battles, dead cultivators, and demonic beast remains.
• Five Martial Venerable Realm cultivators ambushed Jiang Chen, but he killed them with the Demonic Soul Blade and collected their corpses to use for Corpse Puppets.
• Jiang Chen entered a gloomy underground palace and killed several Frenzied Corpses that attacked him.
• Jiang Chen continued through the passageways and arrived at a vast hall filled with Human Race geniuses.

Jiang Chen watched the geniuses attack the sealed treasures on the stone pillars, unaware that damaging the seals would awaken nearby statues. After the statues killed nearly a thousand cultivators, the geniuses broke the first seal and recovered a partially damaged secret technique, then prepared to approach the remaining pillars more carefully.

• The geniuses found fifteen pillars containing rare treasures, including the Wordless Heavenly Tome and a Nine-Revolving Emperor Pill, and agreed to break the seals by force.
• Jiang Chen suspected that brute force would bring trouble, but the geniuses attacked the first pillar and activated forty nearby stone statues.
• The awakened statues attacked the cultivators, killing nearly a thousand before the geniuses destroyed them.
• The geniuses broke the first seal, damaging part of the jade slip and losing the third level of its secret technique.
• Ba Jiuge and the others agreed to share copies of the surviving technique and be more careful with the next seal.