Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen left Dragon Gate for Luo'an Prefecture to find Long Qingyao before the six-year deadline. In Huaping City, he hired the Mission Hall to prepare a route to the Formless Sect.

• Jiang Chen left Xu Li in charge of Dragon Gate, entrusted him with recruiting quality disciples, and left Dan Qin and An Qing there to cultivate.
• Jiang Chen set out with Azure Flood following secretly and Lang Heng disguised as a seventh-order mount.
• The Five Great Sects raised Jiang Chen's bounty to fifty billion spirit stones after he reached the Martial Saint Realm and killed more experts.
• Jiang Chen entered Huaping City with his cultivation suppressed and went to the Mission Hall for help reaching the Formless Sect.
• Steward Zhao agreed to provide Jiang Chen with a viable route for five hundred thousand spirit stones and told him to wait half an hour.

Jiang Chen bought travel directions to the Formless Sect and a map of the Southern Region before setting out for the next city. In the wilderness, he exposed a pursuer who identified himself as Chou Tianxiao of the Ten Directions Sword Manor and declared he had come to avenge Jian Wushuang.

• Jiang Chen paid Steward Zhao five hundred thousand spirit stones for directions to the Formless Sect and two hundred million for a map of the Southern Region.
• Jiang Chen studied the map, noted the route through Hongyun Prefecture and the cities with teleportation arrays, then left for the next city.
• Jiang Chen sensed someone following him after he left the city and challenged the pursuer in the wilderness.
• Jiang Chen shot an arrow of true qi into the pursuer's hiding place and forced him into the open.
• Chou Tianxiao revealed that he was the Ten Directions Sword Emperor's fourth disciple and had followed Jiang Chen to avenge his junior brother Jian Wushuang.

Jiang Chen defeated Chou Tianxiao and destroyed the Ten Directions Sword Emperor’s life-saving projection. The furious Sword Emperor was left injured and unable to reach Jiang Chen quickly.

• Chou Tianxiao attacked Jiang Chen with a palm, but Jiang Chen blocked it with a barrier.
• Chou Tianxiao drew the Black Prison Sword and unleashed the Black Prison Slash, but Jiang Chen countered with the Demonic Soul Slash and severed Chou Tianxiao’s left hand.
• Chou Tianxiao used his jade tablet to summon a projection of the Ten Directions Sword Emperor, which blocked Jiang Chen’s blade energy.
• The Ten Directions Sword Emperor demanded that Jiang Chen apologize, but Jiang Chen attacked the projection instead.
• Jiang Chen struck the projection with a twentyfold Thunder Strike, destroying it and causing the Ten Directions Sword Emperor to suffer minor internal injuries.
• Chou Tianxiao watched in shock as Jiang Chen shattered his master’s projection with one punch.

Jiang Chen defeated Ten Directions Sword Emperor’s projection and forced Chou Tianxiao to swear a Heavenly Oath and reveal what he knew about his master. Meanwhile, Yan Shifang gathered experts to pursue Jiang Chen, though his subordinates warned that doing so could interfere with the Genius Convention.

• Yan Shifang ordered his subordinates to gather experts so he could kill Jiang Chen after the projection was destroyed.
• Jiang Chen dismissed Chou Tianxiao’s threats and refused to spare him merely because he was Ten Directions Sword Emperor’s disciple.
• Chou Tianxiao begged Jiang Chen for mercy and offered to become his servant.
• Jiang Chen agreed to spare Chou Tianxiao if he swore a Heavenly Oath and disclosed everything he knew about Ten Directions Sword Emperor.
• Chou Tianxiao swore the oath and told Jiang Chen what he knew about his master.
• At Ten Directions Sword Manor, a peak Martial Saint warned Yan Shifang that pursuing Jiang Chen could disrupt the Genius Convention.

Yan Shifang postponed his pursuit of Jiang Chen so Ten Directions Sword Manor could attend the Genius Convention in Eternal City. Jiang Chen decided to enter the competition for its rewards and traveled toward Eternal City, reaching Qingchao City.

• Yan Shifang listened to his disciples and allies urge him to prioritize the Genius Convention, then ordered Ten Directions Sword Manor to depart for Eternal City in two days while keeping watch for Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen learned that the convention would be held in Eternal City and decided to participate for the first-place reward, despite the risk of encountering the Ten Directions Sword Emperor.
• Jiang Chen and Lang Heng set out for Eternal City, while the Five Great Sects of Nanyuan Prefecture also sent their eligible geniuses there.
• Jiang Chen traveled unimpeded because the Five Great Sects had relaxed their pursuit of him to prepare for the convention.
• Seven days later, Jiang Chen arrived in Qingchao City, a powerful city ruled by a Martial Sovereign Realm expert.

Jiang Chen entered Qingchao City to buy the materials needed to unlock the fifth seal of the Demonic Soul Blade. After purchasing the materials and other goods, he decided to buy an expensive defensive armor, leaving Lu Ju stunned by his wealth.

• Jiang Chen entered Qingchao City with Lang Heng and told him to stay nearby while he used the city's teleportation array.
• Jiang Chen visited the Myriad Treasures Pavilion in disguise and asked Lu Ju for Blazing Flame Iron and Cold Wind Stone.
• Jiang Chen bought three hundred pounds each of Blazing Flame Iron and Cold Wind Stone, along with other materials and spirit medicines.
• Jiang Chen asked about the Thunder Silkworm Silk Soft Armor, learned it cost thirty billion spirit stones, and said he would buy it.
• Lu Ju was shocked that Jiang Chen could afford the armor after his earlier purchases.

Jiang Chen bought the Thunder Silkworm Silk Soft Armor, but Bai Yun tried to claim it after arriving too late. When she attacked Lu Ju and then Jiang Chen, he seized her wrist and warned her guards to stand down, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Jiang Chen paid three hundred billion spirit stones for the Thunder Silkworm Silk Soft Armor.
• Bai Yun arrived and demanded the armor, but Lu Ju explained that Jiang Chen had already bought it.
• Bai Yun slapped Lu Ju and ordered the Myriad Treasures Pavilion staff to hand over the armor.
• Bai Yun offered Jiang Chen his money back, then tried to slap him when he ignored her.
• Jiang Chen seized Bai Yun's wrist and revealed that he was a Martial Saint Realm, First Level cultivator.
• Jiang Chen threatened to injure Bai Yun if her Martial Saint Realm, Fifth Level guards acted recklessly.

Jiang Chen forced Bai Yun to apologize to Lu Ju after she slapped her, then fought Bai Yun’s guards when she ordered them to seize him. He injured the guards and struck Bai Yun, leaving her fearing he might kill her.

• Jiang Chen grabbed Bai Yun and demanded that she apologize to Lu Ju, threatening to cripple her if she refused.
• Bai Yun apologized to Lu Ju and offered her five million spirit stones, so Jiang Chen released her.
• Bai Yun ordered her two Martial Saint Realm, Fifth Level guards to capture Jiang Chen and take him to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Jiang Chen entered the Entering Demonic State and severely injured both guards with one punch each.
• Jiang Chen struck Bai Yun across the face, and she threatened him with her father's power as Lu Ju watched in fear.

Jiang Chen beat Bai Yun, killed two City Lord's Mansion experts, and left the Myriad Treasures Pavilion with her as a captive. As troops pursued them through Qingchao City, Lang Heng defeated a patrol squad, and they continued toward the city gate.

• Jiang Chen struck Bai Yun again and killed her two wounded guards when they tried to intervene.
• Three Myriad Treasures Pavilion experts confronted Jiang Chen, but they let him leave with Bai Yun after he put on the Thunder Silkworm Silk Soft Armor.
• Jiang Chen sealed Bai Yun's cultivation, tied her up, and left the pavilion with Lang Heng as news of the deaths and her capture reached the City Lord's Mansion.
• Jiang Chen told Lang Heng to take them out of the city, but a patrol squad tried to stop them.
• Lang Heng recovered his Martial Saint Realm strength and sent the patrol squad flying, killing and injuring several soldiers.

Jiang Chen fought his way through Qingchao City’s guards and confronted Bai Changxing after killing Pang Gu and his men. After Jiang Chen killed Bai Yun and revealed his identity, the Azure Flood Dragon ambushed Bai Changxing, giving Jiang Chen a chance to escape.

• Jiang Chen defeated Pang Gu and the City Lord’s Mansion experts who pursued him, then faced Bai Changxing.
• Jiang Chen threatened Bai Changxing with Bai Yun, but Bai Changxing attacked him with soul force, so Jiang Chen killed Bai Yun.
• Bai Changxing attacked Jiang Chen, whose mask broke and revealed that he was Jiang Chen.
• The Azure Flood Dragon ambushed Bai Changxing and wounded him while Jiang Chen prepared to leave.
• Bai Changxing ordered his subordinates to stop Jiang Chen from escaping.

Jiang Chen escaped the city while the Azure Flood Dragon held off Bai Changxing, who revealed his true cultivation and injured the dragon. Bai Changxing later learned Jiang Chen had fled and placed an enormous bounty on him, vowing revenge for Bai Yun’s death.

• Jiang Chen evaded the City Lord's Mansion experts and fled toward the city gates while the Azure Flood Dragon blocked Bai Changxing.
• Bai Changxing fought the Azure Flood Dragon with the Great White Sun Palm, then revealed he was at the third level of the Martial Sovereign Realm and struck the dragon down.
• The injured Azure Flood Dragon burned his blood essence to escape, while Jiang Chen broke through the city gates and used Corpse Puppets to fend off his pursuers.
• Bai Changxing returned to find that Jiang Chen had escaped and ordered a search, offering ten billion spirit stones for information and eighty billion for Jiang Chen's death.
• Bai Changxing mourned Bai Yun and vowed to tear Jiang Chen apart, refusing to accept that his own decisions had helped lead to her death.

After recovering from their injuries, Jiang Chen and Azure Flood Dragon set out and came across villagers being attacked by a Black Tiger. Jiang Chen saved them and learned that Tongnan City was the nearest city before agreeing to spend the night in Luoshui Village.

• Jiang Chen and Azure Flood Dragon hid in the mountains for five days to recover from their injuries.
• Jiang Chen heard screams and found a Black Tiger attacking villagers, including Wang Yu and Wang Qiqi.
• Jiang Chen killed the Black Tiger before it could reach Wang Yu and Wang Qiqi.
• Wang Yu told Jiang Chen that Luoshui Village was nearby and Tongnan City was more than a thousand li away.
• Jiang Chen accepted an invitation to rest for the night in Luoshui Village.

Jiang Chen accompanied Wang Yu’s group back to Luoshui Village after saving them from a fifth-order Black Tiger, and shared food with Wang Yu’s family. Wang Fang asked Jiang Chen why his nine-year-old daughter Wang Qiqi could not enter the Martial Apprentice Realm, leaving Jiang Chen to consider her unusual lack of progress.

• Jiang Chen accepted Wang Qiqi’s invitation and waited while Wang Yu’s group gathered their fallen companions’ bodies.
• Wang Yu brought the bodies back to Luoshui Village, where their families mourned and collected them.
• Wang Yu welcomed Jiang Chen into his home, and Jiang Chen shared spiritual wine and food with the family.
• Wang Fang asked Jiang Chen about his severed hand, and Jiang Chen explained that regrowing it required rare spiritual medicine.
• Wang Fang asked why Wang Qiqi could not enter the Martial Apprentice Realm despite practicing since she was five.

Jiang Chen discovered that Wang Qiqi possessed the Blood Phoenix Divine Body, a talent too powerful to awaken without sufficient resources, and her family asked him to take her as his disciple. Meanwhile, soldiers from Qingchao City tracked Jiang Chen to the village and approached Wang Yu’s home after Zheng Dan betrayed his whereabouts.

• Jiang Chen examined Wang Qiqi and discovered her extraordinary constitution.
• More than a thousand soldiers from Qingchao City entered the village searching for Jiang Chen and threatened the villagers.
• Zheng Dan offered to lead the soldiers to Jiang Chen in exchange for a reward.
• Jiang Chen explained that Wang Qiqi had the Blood Phoenix Divine Body and needed abundant resources to activate it.
• Wang Fang knelt and asked Jiang Chen to accept Wang Qiqi as his disciple.

Jiang Chen took Wang Qiqi as his first disciple, then fought off Qingchao City’s forces while arranging for the villagers to escape. After wiping out the pursuing troops, he headed toward Qingchao City with Azure Flood Dragon and left Bai Changxing to discover the slaughter at Luoshui Village.

• Jiang Chen agreed to take Wang Qiqi as his disciple, and Wang Qiqi knelt to greet him as Master.
• Jiang Chen killed the Qingchao soldiers who threatened the villagers, then sent the villagers away aboard his flying vessel with Lang Heng and Azure Flood Dragon.
• Jiang Chen defeated a larger Qingchao City force, absorbed the fallen fighters’ blood and qi, and broke through to the Martial Saint Realm, Second Level.
• Jiang Chen wiped out the forces that converged on him, then waited as Bai Changxing and the other top experts passed toward Luoshui Village.
• Jiang Chen met Azure Flood Dragon near Qingchao City and learned that Lang Heng had taken the villagers to settle near Dragon Gate, while Wang Qiqi remained in his Small World Treasure.
• Bai Changxing found the corpses at Luoshui Village and asked whether Jiang Chen had killed them.

After Jiang Chen escaped Bai Changxing’s pursuit, he joined the Azure Flood Dragon in attacking the Qingchao City Lord’s Mansion while Bai Changxing and his forces were away. They faced the mansion’s defensive formation as Bai Changxing rushed back, leaving Jiang Chen preparing to break in and plunder the Bai family’s stronghold.

• Bai Changxing learned that Jiang Chen had escaped again and ordered his men to search for him without engaging.
• Bai Changxing received word that Jiang Chen and a Martial Sovereign Realm expert had attacked the Qingchao City Lord’s Mansion, and he hurried back with his forces.
• Jiang Chen identified the mansion’s Yin-Yang Two Forms Formation and explained that brute force would require a Martial Sovereign Realm, Third Level expert.
• Bai Feng reassured the people inside the mansion that the formation would hold until Bai Changxing returned.
• Jiang Chen told the Azure Flood Dragon he could weaken the formation temporarily so they could break through and attack the mansion.

Jiang Chen and Long Fei broke into Qingchao City's City Lord's Mansion, killed the Bai family members there, and took its treasures before teleporting to Beihai Prefecture. Bai Changxing arrived too late, learned where Jiang Chen had gone, and vowed to pursue him.

• Jiang Chen used his formation mastery to weaken the Yin-Yang Two Forms Formation, then attacked its shield with Long Fei and broke through.
• Jiang Chen and Long Fei killed the people inside the City Lord's Mansion, including Bai Feng, and looted its treasury.
• Jiang Chen and Long Fei defeated the teleportation guards and used a cross-prefecture formation to travel to Beihai Prefecture.
• Bai Changxing returned to Qingchao City, found his wife, son, and clansmen dead, and learned Jiang Chen had escaped.
• Bai Changxing ordered Su Rong to prepare a force to pursue Jiang Chen in Beihai Prefecture.

After dealing with the Bai residence, Jiang Chen traveled to Beihai Prefecture and continued toward Eternal City. At the port, he booked the Yuantong Merchant Guild’s most expensive private room for the voyage across the inland sea.

• Bai Changxing repaired battle-damaged buildings, compensated the families of fallen soldiers, and led experts through a teleportation array to Beihai Prefecture.
• Jiang Chen and Long Fei arrived in Beihai Prefecture and set out for Eternal City, where many cultivators were gathering for the Genius Convention.
• Jiang Chen sent Long Fei into his small world to guide Wang Qiqi in her cultivation.
• Jiang Chen reached a port on Beihai Prefecture’s inland sea and chose the Yuantong Merchant Guild’s ship for the crossing.
• Jiang Chen paid for a First-class private room aboard the ship bound for Wantong City.

Jiang Chen boarded the Yuantong Merchant Ship and discovered that its young master, Yuan Hongjie, was afflicted by a demon-related condition. The chapter ended with Yuan Hongjie stunned that Jiang Chen had identified the cause.

• Jiang Chen paid for a first-class room aboard the Yuantong Merchant Ship and settled in with Long Fei and Wang Qiqi.
• Jiang Chen checked Wang Qiqi's cultivation, found she had reached the fourth level of the Martial Apprentice Realm, and sent her and Long Fei back into the Small World Treasure.
• Jiang Chen went to the ship's open area as it departed and met Yuan Hongjie, the Yuantong Merchant Guild's young master.
• When Yuan Hongjie asked why Jiang Chen had stared at him, Jiang Chen calmly said that he was sick.
• Jiang Chen whispered that Yuan Hongjie's illness was related to a demon, leaving Yuan Hongjie shocked.

Jiang Chen agreed to treat Yuan Hongjie, whose body contained Blood Devil blood that caused him to periodically lose control and risk becoming a demon. Jiang Chen removed the demonic blood and promised pills to eliminate the remaining Devil Race aura, leaving Yuan Hongjie recovered from the immediate threat and indebted to him.

• Yuan Hongjie invited Jiang Chen to his room after Jiang Chen sensed a hidden demonic aura within him.
• Yuan Hongjie explained that Blood Devil blood had entered his body over twenty years earlier and that the attacks were growing more frequent as his suppressing pills lost their effect.
• Jiang Chen examined Yuan Hongjie and said he could draw out the demonic blood and refine pills to remove the remaining Devil Race aura.
• Yuan Hongjie trusted Jiang Chen and ordered his subordinates not to disturb the treatment.
• Jiang Chen set up a formation and used the Sky Devouring Demonic Dragon Art to draw a bowl of black demonic blood from Yuan Hongjie's body.
• Jiang Chen told Yuan Hongjie he would refine pills for a month-long course, and Yuan Hongjie thanked him and pledged his friendship and a favor.