Chapter Summaries

Xu Yan concealed himself so completely that Su Lingxiu and Meng Chong could not find him, then taught them the Harmony of Light and Dust Technique. After Meng Shushu returned with ancient treasures and a Heavenly Human Cultivation Method, Xu Yan entered the Gate of the Spirit Domain, with Li Xuan secretly sending a Divine Essence Incarnation after him.

• Su Lingxiu searched the mountaintop repeatedly for Xu Yan, and Meng Chong also failed to detect him even after probing the area with Blade Intent.
• Xu Yan revealed himself, shared the Harmony of Light and Dust Technique with Su Lingxiu and Meng Chong, and prepared to enter the Spirit Domain.
• Meng Shushu returned with five unusual Storage Bags, Spiritual Medicine, and a complete Heavenly Human Cultivation Method, but was astonished to learn Xu Yan had already killed a Heavenly Human.
• Xu Yan and his companions traveled to the Northern Wasteland, where Xu Yan bade Li Xuan farewell and entered the Gate of the Spirit Domain.
• Li Xuan sent a Divine Essence Incarnation through the gate after Xu Yan, but its connection to Li Xuan weakened when the gate closed.

Li Xuan returned to Canglan Island while Xu Yan entered the Spirit Domain and learned how active its spiritual energy was. After Dai Yingying attacked him and threatened him with her family’s power, Xu Yan killed her and set out for the Azure Dragon Tomb.

• Li Xuan recalled his Divine Essence Incarnation to the Gate of the Spirit Domain and returned to Canglan Island.
• Xu Yan entered the Spirit Domain, sensed its abundant Spiritual Qi, and realized its Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy was more active than the Inner Domain’s.
• Dai Yingying tried to recruit Xu Yan as a servant and then attacked him with a whip after he ignored her.
• Xu Yan killed Dai Yingying’s old woman bodyguard with a palm strike and Xun Feng Sword Intent, then made Dai Yingying explain the Azure Dragon Tomb and Jade Province.
• After taking Dai Yingying’s Storage Bag, Xu Yan killed her and flew toward the Azure Dragon Tomb, while the two gate guards feared he was the Blood Demon.

After Xu Yan killed Dai Yingying and entered the Spirit Domain, its Gate guardians concealed her death while Li Xuan’s group returned to Canglan Island. Xu Yan headed for the Azure Dragon Tomb and occupied a place reserved for a powerful faction, leaving the gathered prodigies to mistake him for a reckless Rogue Cultivator.

• The Gate guardians chose to conceal Dai Yingying’s death and claim that a Rogue Cultivator had killed her.
• Li Xuan learned from the Great Dao Golden Book that Xu Yan had killed a Lesser Heavenly Human, then returned to Canglan Island with the others as they resumed cultivating.
• Gifted disciples from Jade Province’s Spirit Sects and aristocratic families gathered at Black Cloud Marsh to await the yearly opening of the Azure Dragon Tomb.
• Dai Jun arrived with the Dai Family and learned that Dai Yingying had gone to the Inner Domain to capture people, while her family’s alliance with the Zheng Kingdom imperial family raised its standing.
• After examining Dai Yingying’s Storage Bag, Xu Yan reached Black Cloud Marsh and claimed the unoccupied boulder reserved for the Shen Family.
• The gathered martial artists judged Xu Yan to be an unaffiliated Rogue Cultivator and were astonished that someone who looked like a Grandmaster dared occupy the prime position.

Xu Yan claimed a boulder at Black Cloud Marsh while waiting for the poisonous miasma to clear before entering the Azure Dragon Tomb. After he killed Shen Haizhou’s servant and took Shen Haizhou’s Storage Bag, Shen Haizhou bullied Dai Jun into surrendering his own spot and an attendant’s Storage Bag.

• Xu Yan decided against entering the Azure Dragon Tomb early and continued practicing martial arts on the boulder he had claimed.
• Shen Haizhou arrived and sent his servant to drive Xu Yan away from the Shen Family’s supposed territory.
• Xu Yan killed Shen Haizhou’s servant with a single sword-intent strike, frightening the gathered geniuses.
• Shen Haizhou disavowed his servant, offered compensation, and handed over his Storage Bag after Xu Yan demanded it.
• Shen Haizhou took Dai Jun’s claimed spot and seized an attendant’s Storage Bag, while Dai Jun left without challenging him.

As the poisonous miasma cleared, Xu Yan and the other prodigies entered Black Rock Mountain to explore the Azure Sky Flood Dragon Tomb. They discovered deadly poison inside the mountain, while a crystalline snake followed them into the tomb seeking the Flood Dragon Body.

• Xu Yan discovered Shen Haizhou's treasured collection of erotic books and drawings, then sold it back to him for one million Spirit Crystals, which Shen borrowed from Dai Jun without promising to repay.
• The miasma dispersed, and the prodigies reached Black Rock Mountain, where fragments from the poisonous rock badly injured two scouts as they opened the tomb entrance.
• The scouts and prodigies entered the dark cave, where a Night Pearl's light triggered poison that killed the scout carrying it.
• Xu Yan followed at the rear with detoxifying medicine and sensed that it could counter the cave's poison.
• A crystalline snake entered the cave, declaring that it wanted the Flood Dragon Body to purify its bloodline and reach the fifth rank.

Xu Yan secretly claimed the Jade Flood Dragon Tree and Dragon Eye Fruits while the prodigies fought a Jade Crystal Snake in the Azure Sky Flood Dragon’s tomb. As the snake and the others attacked him, Shen Haizhou sensed a ripple of soul power from the coiled dragon, and Xu Yan shifted in front of it as the snake’s strike came down.

• The prodigies entered the tomb chamber and discovered the Jade Flood Dragon Tree and Dragon Eye Fruits, while Xu Yan sensed that something concealed had entered behind them.
• A hidden Jade Crystal Snake killed several martial artists sent to dig up the tree, then stole Moonlight Stones as the chamber grew dark.
• The prodigies attacked the snake, allowing Xu Yan to dig up the Jade Flood Dragon Tree and collect the Dragon Eye Fruits with Shen Haizhou.
• The wounded snake transformed into a huge Jade Crystal Snake and attacked Xu Yan, while the other prodigies demanded that he hand over the spirit medicines.
• Shen Haizhou sensed a ripple of soul power from the coiled dragon and crept toward the entrance as Xu Yan shifted in front of the dragon just before the snake’s strike landed.

Xu Yan discovered signs that the Azure Sky Flood Dragon was transforming into a Corpse Boar, but the Jade Crystal Snake woke it by burrowing into its nostril. The resurrected flood dragon destroyed Black Rock Mountain and attacked the prodigies, while Shen Haizhou killed the poisoned Dai Jun and claimed he had become a corpse puppet.

• Xu Yan lured the Jade Crystal Snake into smashing the giant dragon statue, revealing a cavern and faint soul fluctuations within.
• The Jade God Sect youth sent scouts into the cavern, and the prodigies followed after learning the Azure Sky Flood Dragon appeared dead.
• Xu Yan spotted fuzz and newly emerged claws on the flood dragon's corpse and suspected it was transforming into a Corpse Boar.
• The Jade Crystal Snake entered the flood dragon's nostril, awakening it; the dragon sneezed the snake out, then attacked as the cavern and Black Rock Mountain collapsed.
• The Azure Sky Flood Dragon rose above Black Cloud Marsh and drew in its poisonous miasma, while the Jade God Sect youth and Dai Jun escaped by sacrificing others.
• Shen Haizhou stabbed the poisoned Dai Jun near the marsh's edge, then pulverized his corpse and said Dai Jun would have become a corpse puppet.

Xu Yan fought the Azure Sky Flood Dragon, which had revived as a powerful Corpse Boar, and subdued it with the Dragon Subduing Palm. After purging its Corpse Boar aura, he discovered he could control and shrink its corpse, then stored it in his Storage Bag.

• The prodigies learned that the Azure Sky Flood Dragon had become a Corpse Boar in an incomplete attempt to live a second life, and its spirit-soul might trapped them.
• Xu Yan attacked the Azure Sky Flood Dragon to keep it from growing stronger, while his sword broke its suppression and let the surviving prodigies escape.
• Xu Yan used the Dragon Subduing Palm to overpower the Azure Sky Flood Dragon, then weakened its spirit soul with repeated sword strikes until it went out.
• Xu Yan infused the corpse with Dragon Subduing Palm power and purged its Corpse Boar aura and filthy energy, restoring its appearance to that of a newly dead flood dragon.
• Xu Yan found that the Dragon Subduing Palm let him control and shrink the flood dragon corpse, then placed it in his Storage Bag.

Xu Yan left the Azure Dragon Tomb with the Azure Sky Flood Dragon’s corpse and met Yu Xiaolong, who offered to lead him to Earth Spirit Dragon Qi in exchange for help purifying its bloodline. Meanwhile, the Dai Family and Zheng Kingdom hunted Wen Yong after Dai Yingying’s death, while two Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans lost Xu Yan’s trail.

• Xu Yan searched the ruins of Black Rock Mountain, found them looted, and left the Black Cloud Marsh to seek spiritual supplies and learn more about the Spirit Domain.
• Yu Xiaolong returned a Storage Bag of spiritual medicines, then told Xu Yan about Earth Spirit Dragon Qi and offered to guide him there in exchange for Azure Sky Flood Dragon Essence Blood and help with its transformation.
• Xu Yan agreed to take Yu Xiaolong as his guide and promised to have Red Cat teach it the Great Demon Method if it worked hard.
• News of the Azure Dragon Tomb spread, and the Dai Family confirmed Dai Yingying’s death before joining the Zheng Kingdom imperial family in hunting the rogue cultivator they suspected of killing her.
• Two Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans followed Xu Yan’s lingering aura from the Black Cloud Marsh, but it vanished before they could find him.
• Huang Meng told Wen Yong that the Dai Family and Zheng Kingdom were hunting him for Dai Yingying’s death, and Wen Yong insisted he had not killed her.

Xu Yan entered Jade Province and learned that the Jade God Sect and the Su Family had put a bounty on him, while the Myriad Worlds Alliance searched for the supposed Rogue Cultivator prodigy. He reached Azure Scale City, where two enforcers confronted him, and Xu Yan struck first.

• Huang Meng urged Wen Yong to flee Jade Province after the Dai Family blamed him for Dai Yingying's death, while Xu Yan left Zheng Kingdom and learned about the Spirit Domain from Yu Xiaolong.
• Xu Yan approached Azure Scale City, where the Jade God Sect and the Su Family's bounty for him spread through the city and the Myriad Worlds Alliance began searching for him.
• Wen Yong escaped the alliance's mountain hideout as a Spirit Refining Heavenly Human pursued him over Dai Yingying's death.
• A Rogue Cultivator recognized Xu Yan on the road, warned him about the bounty, and tried to lead him to the Myriad Worlds Alliance.
• Two Lesser Heavenly Human enforcers from the Jade God Sect and the Su Family confronted Xu Yan outside Azure Scale City, and he answered their threats with a sword strike.

After Xu Yan killed the Jade God Sect and Su Family stewards, both powers launched a province-wide hunt, while the Myriad Worlds Alliance and Shen Haizhou also searched for him. Xu Yan disguised himself and used the Harmony of Light and Dust Technique to evade pursuing Greater Heavenly Humans as he headed for the Vast Mountain Range; the chapter ended with him suddenly hiding in the brush with Yu Xiaolong.

• Xu Yan killed the Jade God Sect and Su Family stewards with his Mountain River Sword Intent, took their Storage Bags, and destroyed their bodies.
• Xu Yan set out for the Vast Mountain Range to find the Earth Spirit Dragon Qi, while the Myriad Worlds Alliance investigated the stewards' deaths and the Azure Dragon Tomb.
• The Jade God Sect and Su Family announced a bounty and joined forces to hunt Xu Yan, prompting Shen Haizhou to mobilize the Shen Family's intelligence network and head toward the Vast Mountain Range.
• Xu Yan killed a martial artist carrying a portrait of him, changed his appearance, and concealed his aura with the Harmony of Light and Dust Technique.
• Xu Yan evaded repeated searches by Greater Heavenly Humans as he traveled through mountain forests toward the Vast Mountain Range.
• Xu Yan sensed something, seized Yu Xiaolong by the neck, and vanished into a clump of thorns and weeds.

Xu Yan evaded a Spirit Refining Heavenly Human by hiding in a bramble thicket, then entered a concealed underground passage where he encountered the wounded fugitive Wen Yong. After learning Wen Yong had been falsely blamed for Dai Yingying’s death, Xu Yan accepted Wen Yong’s offer of Earth Spirit Jade Marrow and prepared to teach him an aura-concealing technique.

• Xu Yan hid from a searching Spirit Refining Heavenly Human, waited until nightfall, and followed Yu Xiaolong’s directions to an underground passage.
• Wen Yong fled into the same passage while injured and carrying a portrait of Xu Yan, whom the Jade God Sect and Su Family were pursuing.
• Xu Yan caught up with Wen Yong, learned he was blamed for Dai Yingying’s murder, and realized Wen Yong had taken the blame for Xu Yan’s killing of her.
• Xu Yan gave Wen Yong healing pills, and Wen Yong offered him the Earth Spirit Jade Marrow recorded in a dead martial artist’s belongings.
• Xu Yan realized the Spirit Refining Heavenly Human he had encountered was likely the Dai Family’s Old Ancestor pursuing Wen Yong and offered to teach Wen Yong the Harmony of Light and Dust Technique.

Xu Yan helped Wen Yong escape the underground passage, then found Earth Spirit Dragon Qi in the Earth Spirit Jade Marrow cavern and began refining it to prepare for the Divine Intent Realm. In the Inner Domain, Li Xuan compiled an Array Dao Grand Ceremony and guided the Great Wilderness as powerful figures joined its inner council, leaving Guo Rongshan to enforce their rules with Li Xuan’s protective jade tablet.

• Xu Yan taught Wen Yong a simplified concealment technique, and the two survived spirit beasts and poisonous fog before reaching the Earth Spirit Jade Marrow.
• Wen Yong revealed the Myriad Worlds Alliance and left with Dai Yingying’s Storage Bag after Xu Yan admitted he had killed her.
• Xu Yan captured the Earth Spirit Dragon Qi and began refining it while Yu Xiaolong guarded the cavern.
• Li Xuan began compiling an Array Dao Grand Ceremony and advised that Half-step Heavenly Humans could join the Great Wilderness’s inner council as Attendants under strict rules.
• Several Half-step Heavenly Humans joined the new Attendant Hall, where Guo Rongshan used Li Xuan’s jade tablet to impress upon them the need to obey its rules.

The Great Wilderness expanded as Yan Kingdom joined it, while Ziyun fled to Canglan Island after killing the Spirit Domain-blooded man her father wanted her to marry. Li Xuan invited Ziyun to study the Array Dao, but she could not comprehend the diagram; the chapter ended as his Great Dao Golden Book opened in a burst of golden light.

• The Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s Half-step Heavenly Humans secretly joined the Great Wilderness Inner Cabinet’s Attendant Hall, and Yan Kingdom incorporated itself into the Great Wilderness.
• The Purple Cloud Emperor learned that Princess Ziyun had killed Young Master Su, disowned her, stripped her of her title, and placed a bounty on her.
• Meng Chong killed Old Su as he pursued Ziyun onto Canglan Island, then agreed to let her stay there.
• The Great Wilderness gained momentum as news spread that the Spirit Domain treated Inner Domain people as slaves; Meng Chong perfected the Great Sun Golden Body, and Su Lingxiu advanced in her cultivation.
• Li Xuan asked Ziyun to comprehend an array diagram, but she could not understand it; meanwhile, Mother Xu prepared to break through to the Innate Realm.
• As Li Xuan prepared to record the second page of the Taicang Book, the Great Dao Golden Book opened and released golden light.

Li Xuan received news of Xu Yan’s Divine Intent breakthrough and new divine bone while creating techniques for the growing Great Wilderness Martial Dao. After the Ziyun Kingdom merged into the Great Wilderness, Xie Tianheng arrived on Canglan Island to study the sword path, while Yun Miaomiao and the Peerless Grandmaster anticipated the coming Spirit Domain journey and possible conflict.

• Xie Tianheng achieved a Clear Sword Heart, improving Li Xuan’s Heart Sword Realm, and Xu Yan later broke through to the Divine Intent Realm and gained a Mountain River Divine Bone.
• Li Xuan created an initial Great Wilderness Martial Dao canon and gave it to Peng Yuan and the other Martial Scholars to study and develop further.
• Xu Yan killed several Greater Heavenly Humans, and the Ziyun Kingdom collapsed before its imperial family announced its merger into the Great Wilderness.
• Xie Tianheng arrived on Canglan Island, became Li Xuan’s sword-path apprentice, and returned to Sword Venerate Cliff to pursue Sword Intent.
• Li Xuan considered how to develop martial conceptions and the Medicinal Dao as the Great Wilderness Martial Dao spread beyond ten thousand practitioners.
• Yun Miaomiao and the Peerless Grandmaster discussed entering the Spirit Domain, the Tai Miao Sect, and the possibility of conflict between the Great Wilderness and the Spirit Domain.

After breaking through to the Divine Intent Realm, Xu Yan killed several Greater Heavenly Humans and fled Dai Sheng, a Spirit Refining Heavenly Human, by slipping out of a city amid Shen Haizhou’s disruption. He then sought Shen Haizhou to learn the Dai Family’s strength, apparently planning to attack its stronghold.

• Du Yuying wondered whether she should visit Canglan Island to grow closer to Mother Xu.
• Xu Yan killed a Dai Family elder, Dai Yiping, and elders from the Jade God Sect and the Su Family after they tried to capture him.
• Dai Sheng pursued Xu Yan, who hid in a city but escaped in the confusion Shen Haizhou caused while leaving it.
• Xu Yan met Shen Haizhou again and asked where the Dai Family’s stronghold was and whether it had any Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans besides Dai Sheng.

After learning about the Dai Family’s strength, Xu Yan infiltrated its ancestral land and killed the Spirit Refining Heavenly Human guarding it. He looted the treasury and fled, leaving Jade Province on the brink of upheaval.

• Shen Haizhou explained the Dai Family’s ranks and strength, then gave Xu Yan a map of its ancestral land and treasury.
• Xu Yan asked Shen Haizhou to keep Dai Sheng occupied while he traveled to the Dai Family’s territory disguised as Dai Yang.
• Xu Yan used the Azure Sky Flood Dragon’s corpse to lure the Dai Family’s guardian out, then ambushed the old man and destroyed his soul.
• Xu Yan killed several Greater Heavenly Humans, raided the Dai Family’s treasury, and fled with its treasures.

Xu Yan wiped out the Dai Family’s vault and killed its Spirit Refining Heavenly Human, shaking Jade Province and prompting the Jade God Sect, Su Family, and Myriad Worlds Alliance to react. Disguised as a Spirit Sect martial artist, he headed for the Gate of the Spirit Domain, but Granny Jing saw through his disguise.

• Xu Yan looted a Dai Family vault, destroyed much of the family grounds, and escaped before Dai Sheng returned.
• Dai Sheng learned that Xu Yan had killed his uncle and several clan elders, then ordered the Jade God Sect and Su Family to treat Xu Yan as a grave threat.
• News of the attack spread across Jade Province, and the Jade God Sect and Su Family issued plans to hunt Xu Yan while Alliance Leader Yu ordered the Myriad Worlds Alliance to find him first.
• Xu Yan changed his appearance and forged a Spirit Sect identity as he traveled toward the Gate of the Spirit Domain.
• Granny Jing, sent by Tang Jinyan to capture a man in the Inner Domain, recognized that Xu Yan’s Spirit Sect emblem was fake.

Xu Yan killed Granny Jing and returned through the Gate of the Spirit Domain to the Inner Domain. On Canglan Island, Su Lingxiu comprehended the Mystic Mind Artistic Conception, prompting Li Xuan to pass her the third level of the Medicinal Dao Martial Codex.

• Xu Yan killed Granny Jing after she mistook him for a Rogue Cultivator impersonating a Spirit Sect member, then found a Water Star Palace jade tablet in her Storage Bag.
• Xu Yan entered the Gate of the Spirit Domain, and Guardians Ke and Nie agreed to conceal his passage from everyone.
• Li Xuan guided Su Lingxiu in understanding artistic conception while the Great Wilderness martial artists continued switching their cultivation.
• Su Lingxiu comprehended the Mystic Mind Artistic Conception, allowing her to perceive the properties and uses of spiritual objects.
• Su Lingxiu's insight also produced the rudimentary form of the third level of the Medicinal Dao Martial Codex, and Li Xuan imparted its complete version to her.

Li Xuan gained Flying Rainbow Sword Intent and the Divine Annihilation Style from his disciples’ achievements while Xu Yan fought his way through the Spirit Domain. Xu Yan returned to Canglan Island with the spirit beast Yu Xiaolong, and the island’s residents gathered to welcome him and learn about his journey.

• Xie Tianheng comprehended Flying Rainbow Sword Intent, which Li Xuan received through the Great Dao Golden Book.
• Li Xuan learned that Xu Yan had ambushed and killed a Spirit Refining Heavenly Human and gained the Divine Annihilation Style.
• Xu Yan returned through the Gate of the Spirit Domain and told Yu Xiaolong that he came from the Inner Domain and practiced a different martial dao.
• Xu Yan brought Yu Xiaolong to Canglan Island and explained that it could learn the Great Demon Method from Red Cat.
• Xu Yan reunited with his family, master, and fellow disciples, then introduced Yu Xiaolong to everyone.