Chapter Summaries

Xu Yan returned from the Spirit Realm with the Dai Family’s treasure vault, and the group counted the spoils and discussed the dangers of the Spirit Realm. Red Cat defeated Yu Xiaolong, and the chapter left Red Cat attempting Xu Yan’s advice for comprehending an array diagram.

• Red Cat and Yu Xiaolong fought after Yu Xiaolong insulted the cat, and Red Cat won by knocking the spirit beast into the Cang River.
• Xu Yan recounted his Spirit Realm journey, showed everyone the Azure Sky Flood Dragon corpse, and shared the treasures he had taken from the Dai Family’s vault.
• The group sorted the spiritual medicines and other treasures, while Su Lingxiu organized the medicines and developed new pill formulas.
• Xu Yan told Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu about the Jade God Sect and the Su Family pursuing him, and Li Xuan discussed the Spirit Realm’s rigid hierarchy.
• Xu Yan advised Red Cat to draw formation patterns into one of its acupoints rather than study the array diagram directly, and Red Cat eagerly accepted the guidance.

Xu Yan broke through to the Heart Sword Realm, inspiring Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu to make advances of their own while Xie Lingfeng comprehended Sword Intent. After helping his companions strengthen themselves, Xu Yan prepared to return to the Spirit Realm, while Li Xuan anticipated Meng Chong’s breakthrough; the chapter ended with Emperor Zheng and his court welcoming a Superior Sect Elder.

• Xu Yan perfected the Harmony of Light and Dust Technique, which became the Return to Truth Technique, then broke through to the Heart Sword Realm by turning the tree and grass on the mountain into swords.
• Meng Chong perfected his Blade Soul and comprehended a path toward the Hidden Blade Realm, while Su Lingxiu comprehended Pill Flame.
• Xu Yan broke through to the fifth stage of the Dragon Subduing Palm, and Xie Lingfeng attained Clear Sword Heart before Xu Yan guided him to comprehend Ten Thousand Rivers Sword Intent.
• Xie Lingfeng and then Xu Junhe, Meng Shushu, Shi Er, Zhou Ying, and several Martial Scholars broke through to the Profound Understanding Realm; Xu Yan also left pills and guidance for the Great Wilderness inner cabinet.
• Li Xuan prepared to travel to the Spirit Realm after leaving a Divine Essence Incarnation jade tablet behind, while Meng Chong perfected his foundation and prepared to break through the Great Sun Indestructible Golden Body.
• In Zheng Kingdom’s imperial palace, Emperor Zheng, members of the imperial family, and ministers prostrated themselves before a Superior Sect Elder.

The Gate of the Spirit Domain opened fully, allowing jade-token holders to enter for one month, and the Inner Domain’s rulers and forces prepared to enforce the new order. Xu Yan learned that Du Yuying and Yun Miaomiao would enter the Spirit Domain, while jade-tokenless martial artists were turned away at the gate.

• King Qing ordered Zheng Kingdom to announce that jade-token holders could enter the Spirit Domain, while Ya Rong confirmed that her teacher had killed the Blood Fiend and revealed that her teacher had reached a higher state.
• Emperor Zheng ordered the Gate of the Spirit Domain opened for one month, and an old man entered the Inner Domain and delivered the same announcement to Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• Yun Miaomiao told Xu Yan that the gate had opened completely; Du Yuying and Cui'er arrived, and Xu Yan urged Du Yuying and Yun Miaomiao to help each other in the Spirit Domain.
• Bai Yun Kong and Pang Yu discussed the academy’s three jade tokens and decided to ask Meng Chong about the academy’s affiliated forces in the Spirit Domain.
• Martial artists without jade tokens gathered at the gate, but its guardians used their Martial Dao Heavenly Human power to drive them away and threatened to kill anyone who resisted.

Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu reached major breakthroughs while Xu Yan prepared the Great Wasteland for his departure and helped its leaders secure the region. Xie Tianheng, Xie Lingfeng, Du Yuying, Yun Miaomiao, and Ziyun reached the Gate of the Spirit Domain, where Xie Tianheng entered first and waited for the others.

• Meng Chong perfected the Great Sun Indestructible Golden Body and gained an Innate Vajra Divine Bone, while Su Lingxiu reached the Divine Intent Realm and gained an Innate Indestructible Divine Bone.
• Xu Yan taught Bai Yun Kong and Pang Yu a method for entering the Pseudo Divine Intent Realm so they could help protect the Great Wasteland and Canglan Island.
• Xie Tianheng revealed that Xie Lingfeng's mother was from the Spirit Domain, and Xu Yan gave Xie Lingfeng guidance and a spirit jade before the group departed.
• Li Xuan gave spirit jade to Du Yuying, Yun Miaomiao, Ziyun, and Wushuang, and Su Lingxiu gave pills to the departing group.
• Xie Tianheng, Xie Lingfeng, Du Yuying, Yun Miaomiao, and Ziyun arrived at the Gate of the Spirit Domain; Xie Tianheng entered with Xie Lingfeng, then waited inside for the women.

Du Yuying, Yun Miaomiao, Ziyun, and Xie Tianheng entered the Spirit Domain and were taken under the protection of powerful figures from the Tai Miao Sect and Great Zhou Kingdom. Xu Yan and Li Xuan’s group followed, and Li Xuan immediately demonstrated his strength by annihilating two Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans with one strike.

• Du Yuying and Yun Miaomiao presented Tai Miao Jade Tokens, while Ziyun presented the King Qing Jade Token, prompting Ya Rong and Xiang Qing to claim them for their respective factions.
• Ya Rong took Du Yuying, Yun Miaomiao, Cui'er, and Wushuang toward the Tai Miao Sect, while Xiang Qing adopted Ziyun and arranged for Xie Tianheng and his son to go to Great Zhou.
• Xu Yan taught Xu Junhe cultivation methods, prepared for the journey, and entered the Spirit Domain ahead of Li Xuan’s group.
• Li Xuan, Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, Zhou Ying, Meng Shushu, and Red Cat entered the Spirit Domain and joined Xu Yan, then traveled toward a scenic destination near Zheng Kingdom’s capital.
• Two Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans from the Jade God Sect and the Su Family confronted Xu Yan, but Li Xuan killed them both with a single palm strike.

Xu Yan and Meng Chong set out to destroy the Dai Family while Li Xuan entered Zheng Kingdom’s Capital City and searched for a fourth disciple suited to the Qimen Martial Dao. The chapter ended with a boy at South Market trying to sell Li Xuan a mysterious treasure praised by the Shen Family’s eldest young master.

• Li Xuan sent Xu Yan and Meng Chong off to travel the Spirit Domain and deepen their understanding of martial arts, while Su Lingxiu stayed behind to cultivate.
• Xu Yan decided to uproot the Dai Family, and he and Meng Chong went to Wang City to ask Shen Haizhou for information.
• Shen Haizhou explained that the Jade God Sect and Su Family had raised their bounty on Xu Yan and were recruiting forces to help hunt him, while the Shen Family had declined to join.
• Xu Yan told Shen Haizhou that he planned to erase the Dai Family from Jade Province, leaving Shen Haizhou shocked.
• Li Xuan explored West Market and South Market in Zheng Kingdom’s Capital City while considering how to find a fourth disciple with talent for the Qimen Martial Dao.
• A slightly plump boy approached Li Xuan at the deserted end of South Market and offered him a treasure that he claimed the Shen Family’s eldest young master had praised.

Li Xuan met Fang Hao, a gifted but unconventional artifact refiner, and tested his potential as a candidate for his fourth disciple. He gave Fang Hao a formation diagram to refine and left with Fang Hao’s Battle Puppet, hoping the task would reveal whether Fang Hao was suited to the Qimen Martial Dao.

• Li Xuan followed Fang Hao into his shop and watched him demonstrate several strange Treasure Artifacts, including a mirror that displayed moving images.
• Fang Hao showed Li Xuan the artifacts he had invented and explained his dream of founding the Spirit Realm’s greatest artifact-refining family.
• Fang Hao demonstrated his Battle Puppet, and Li Xuan was impressed by his inventive work despite its limitations.
• Li Xuan paid Fang Hao five hundred thousand Spirit Crystals for the Battle Puppet and gave him a formation diagram and advance payment to refine it into a Treasure Artifact.
• Li Xuan left with the Battle Puppet, while Fang Hao studied the diagram and sensed that it held extraordinary possibilities.

Fang Hao studied Li Xuan’s Bewildering Inversion Array while Li Xuan assessed his prospects as a Qimen Martial Dao disciple. Meanwhile, Xu Yan and Meng Chong attacked the Dai Family to loot its treasury, leaving Dai Sheng facing Xu Yan’s overwhelming sword technique as the raid continued.

• Fang Hao began designing a set of Treasure Artifacts based on the Array Formation diagram, while Li Xuan explained that it tested Fang Hao’s talent in Array Formations.
• Li Xuan examined Qimen Martial Dao’s progress in the Great Dao Golden Book and continued studying the Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong planned their raid on the Dai Family, and Xu Yan fought Dai Sheng while Meng Chong charged toward the treasury.
• Meng Chong smashed open the hidden treasure vault, and Yu Xiaolong began swallowing its contents as Meng Chong fought off the Dai Family elders.
• Xu Yan raised houses and vegetation into the air as swords, frightening Dai Sheng with the technique of making all things into swords.

Xu Yan and Meng Chong joined forces to kill Dai Sheng and destroy the Dai Family, throwing Jade Province into turmoil and drawing the attention of the Jade God Sect, the Su Family, and the Myriad Worlds Alliance. Back in Zheng Kingdom, Fang Hao worked on forging a formation plate while Li Xuan received the Divine Annihilation Second Form from his disciples’ victory.

• Xu Yan attacked Dai Sheng with his Heart Sword Realm technique while Meng Chong and Yu Xiaolong looted and wrecked the Dai Family grounds.
• Meng Chong used the God Severing Slash to weaken Dai Sheng’s soul defenses as Xu Yan struck with the Xun Mie Sword, and together they killed him.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong left the ruined Dai Family grounds, while arriving Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans learned what had happened and the news spread across Jade Province.
• The Jade God Sect and Su Family considered how to eliminate Xu Yan, while the Myriad Worlds Alliance discussed contacting and protecting him.
• Fang Hao reconsidered how to forge the formation diagram and began making a circular mirror-shaped Treasure Artifact as Li Xuan watched.
• Li Xuan received notifications that Meng Chong had slain a Greater Heavenly Human, Xu Yan had mastered the Xun Mie Sword, and their combined victory had earned him the Divine Annihilation Second Form.

Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Shen Haizhou divided the Dai Family’s treasures and planned to target the Su Family’s Spirit Mine. Meanwhile, Fang Hao tested the Bewildering Inversion Array, caught Li Xuan’s attention, and became his fourth disciple, leaving to prepare for his move.

• Yu Xiaolong disgorged the Storage Bags holding the Dai Family treasury, and Xu Yan gave Shen Haizhou ten percent of its treasures.
• Shen Haizhou proposed stealing from the Su Family’s Spirit Mine with help from someone who raised a third-grade Mountain-Swallowing Toad, and Xu Yan agreed to investigate first.
• Fang Hao activated his Bewildering Inversion Array, became disoriented in his courtyard, and eventually found how to deactivate it.
• Li Xuan arrived at Fang Hao’s courtyard, observed the Array Formation, and learned that Fang Hao had refined it.
• Fang Hao knelt and became Li Xuan’s fourth disciple, then agreed to prepare to move and study the Qimen Martial Dao.

Li Xuan welcomed Fang Hao as his fourth disciple and introduced him to the Qimen Martial Dao, including its principles of formations, artifact refining, and restrictions. Fang Hao embraced the path and began studying its mysteries, though he had yet to find a way to cultivate it.

• Li Xuan activated the Bewildering Inversion Array around the manor, and Su Lingxiu discovered how it concealed and inverted the surroundings.
• Fang Hao left his courtyard after leaving the Spring Night Mirror for Shen Haizhou, then joined Li Xuan and traveled to the manor.
• Su Lingxiu welcomed Fang Hao as her fourth junior brother and won Xiao Ha over with pills, while Red Cat also begged for treats.
• Li Xuan asked Fang Hao about his ambitions, and Fang Hao said he wanted to pursue martial arts and carry the Qimen Martial Dao to greater glory rather than establish an aristocratic family.
• Li Xuan taught Fang Hao the Qimen Martial Dao and showed him the Nine Great Arrays, but Fang Hao remembered only half of one formation diagram.
• Fang Hao sat on the mountain to comprehend the Qimen Martial Dao, determined to seize his opportunity despite not yet knowing how to enter its path.

As the Jade God Sect and Su Family’s bounty sent Jade Province into turmoil, Xu Yan and Meng Chong struck back by assassinating their allies before returning to Li Xuan’s manor. There, Fang Hao prepared to cultivate the Qimen Martial Dao using forged Treasure Artifacts, and his activated Array Formation left Xu Yan and Meng Chong astonished.

• Li Xuan studied the Heaven and Earth Laws while the Jade God Sect and Su Family announced a sweeping bounty for Xu Yan and Meng Chong, drawing Rogue Cultivators and Spirit Sects into the hunt.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong, disguised and hiding in a city, learned of the bounty, then Xu Yan killed the city lord and Meng Chong assassinated an emperor backed by the Su Family.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong killed a Spirit Sect master and other Spirit Refining experts, warned others not to join the feud, and prompted several third-rate sects and families to withdraw from the hunt.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong returned to their master’s temporary residence, while the Great Dao Golden Book told Li Xuan that their latest fight had enhanced his Divine Annihilation Second Form.
• Fang Hao returned from finding a cultivation site, forged an assortment of Treasure Artifacts with array patterns, and activated an Array Formation around the manor as Xu Yan and Meng Chong arrived.

Fang Hao began cultivating Qimen Martial Dao by borrowing the momentum of Heaven and Earth, inspiring Su Lingxiu and Meng Chong to comprehend new techniques. Xu Yan formed a concealed Mountain River Sword Array, leaving Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu sensing that the grass and trees had become dangerous.

• Li Xuan introduced Fang Hao to Xu Yan and Meng Chong, and Fang Hao eagerly declared that he would help his senior brothers by refining array disks.
• Fang Hao arranged Treasure Artifacts in a mountain valley and began cultivating by drawing the momentum of Heaven and Earth into his body.
• Su Lingxiu comprehended the outline of the Heavenly Divine Furnace Alchemy Technique, and Meng Chong comprehended the Heavenly Hammer Hundred Refinements Technique.
• Xu Yan comprehended the Mountain River Sword Array and silently merged its sword intent with the surrounding grass and trees.
• Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu sensed something unusual in the vegetation, and Meng Chong asked Xu Yan whether he had noticed anything.

Xu Yan perfected the Mountain River Sword Array while Fang Hao completed his entry into Qimen Martial Dao and received Li Xuan’s guidance. The chapter ended with Fang Hao beginning to study arrays and artifact refining, tasked with creating a formation that could bind a Spirit Refining Heavenly Human.

• Xu Yan tested his concealed Mountain River Sword Array on Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu, then concluded he could kill Dai Sheng with it and left to cultivate.
• Li Xuan told Su Lingxiu that Fang Hao would enter the sect when the Heaven and Earth Momentum weakened, and predicted Fang Hao would begin in the Profound Understanding Realm.
• As Fang Hao completed his Heaven and Earth Qimen Formation, the Great Dao Golden Book advanced Li Xuan’s Qimen Martial Dao and granted him an Innate Strange Pattern, mastery of Thirty-Six Qimen Formations, and foundational knowledge of array formations, artifact refining, and restrictions.
• Fang Hao emerged from the valley having entered the sect and demonstrated a Qimen Formation, which Su Lingxiu broke; Li Xuan then showed them the power of his own Heaven and Earth Qimen Formation.
• Li Xuan gave Fang Hao the Thirty-Six Arrays and Thirty-Six Heaven and Earth Qimen Formations to study, then ordered him to practice by setting up an estate formation capable of binding a Spirit Refining Heavenly Human.

Fang Hao advanced his Array Dao studies and completed two powerful formations to protect the manor, while Red Cat comprehended its first Great Demon Art. The chapter ended with Xu Yan reaching minor success in the Divine Intent Realm and the manor concealed behind Fang Hao’s new arrays.

• Su Lingxiu asked Fang Hao to forge a new Alchemy Furnace, and Red Cat bullied Xiao Ha into surrendering thirty percent of his pills by staging a frog-soup threat.
• Fang Hao mastered the Thirty-Six Arrays and Nine Great Arrays, received the true meaning of the Array Dao and the Bagua from Li Xuan, and began creating his own formations.
• Red Cat produced nine shifting images of itself, revealing a Great Demon Art, and asked Li Xuan for Array Diagrams to study.
• Xu Yan broke through to minor success in the Divine Intent Realm, while Li Xuan noted that the Jade God Sect and the Su Family were still searching for Xu Yan and Meng Chong.
• Fang Hao’s first attempt at a manor formation caused disorienting fog and phoenix fire, which Li Xuan redirected before Fang Hao corrected the setup.
• Fang Hao completed a Phantom Bewildering Array and a Phoenix Fire Trapping Array that concealed the manor and could trap a Spirit Refining Heavenly Human for nearly half an hour.

Li Xuan guided Fang Hao toward the true meaning of Qimen Martial Dao, while the Jade God Sect and Su Family escalated their hunt for Xu Yan and Meng Chong with a bounty on the Earth Soul Flower. Xu Yan returned to the hidden manor, demonstrated how he could turn Fang Hao’s array into a sword, and inspired Fang Hao to create the Qimen Soldier Crate.

• Li Xuan showed Fang Hao the flaws in his array and taught him to unite formations, restrictions, and artifact refining as Qimen Martial Dao.
• The Jade God Sect and Su Family suspected Xu Yan and Meng Chong might be Myriad Stars prodigies, and the Jade God Sect’s Great Elder vowed to hunt them personally.
• Months later, the Jade God Sect and Su Family offered an Earth Soul Flower as a bounty, drawing martial artists from across Jade Province to search for Xu Yan and Meng Chong.
• Xu Yan returned to find Fang Hao’s array concealing the manor, then turned its mist and phoenix fire into the Mountain River Sword Array and walked through it.
• Xu Yan gave Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu the Dai Family treasury’s spoils, then suggested Fang Hao combine his Qimen artifacts into a weapon.
• Fang Hao conceived the Qimen Soldier Crate, a weapon that could unleash formation artifacts and powerful attacks.

Fang Hao forged Storage Rings and began working on a Qimen Soldier Crate while Meng Chong comprehended the Hidden Blade Realm. After Xu Yan learned that the Jade God Sect and Su Family had placed huge bounties on him and Meng Chong, the disciples planned to seize the sect’s Spirit Mine before Spirit Refining experts investigated their whereabouts.

• Li Xuan received the Qimen Divine Soldier Crate and Qimen Slaughter Dao after Fang Hao comprehended the Qimen path, then forged Fang Hao an Artifact Refining furnace.
• Fang Hao studied storage artifacts and eventually forged Storage Rings for everyone in the courtyard before beginning a Qimen Soldier Crate.
• Meng Chong comprehended the Hidden Blade Realm, and Li Xuan’s Hidden Blade Realm reached great mastery.
• Xu Yan questioned a brown-robed martial artist searching nearby and learned that the Jade God Sect and Su Family had offered enormous bounties for information about him and Meng Chong.
• Xu Yan returned and told the others about the bounties; he proposed taking the Jade God Sect’s Spirit Mine, while Fang Hao offered to conceal it with an Array Formation.
• Xu Yan warned that Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans would soon investigate the area.

Xu Yan and his fellow disciples set up a great array to ambush the Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans Su Liancheng and Ke Linping, who came hunting them outside Zheng Kingdom. Xu Yan and Meng Chong fought the two elders while Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu supported them, and the battle continued with Su Liancheng badly pressured by the group.

• Xu Yan, Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, and Fang Hao prepared an array to test their abilities against an arriving Spirit Refining Heavenly Human.
• Su Liancheng and Ke Linping pursued Xu Yan into Fang Hao's array, where mist and Phoenix Fire separated and disoriented them.
• Xu Yan took on Ke Linping with his Mountain River Sword Array after Fang Hao relinquished control of the array.
• Meng Chong fought Su Liancheng, whose attacks repeatedly damaged Meng Chong's armor despite its rapid recovery.
• Su Lingxiu joined the fight with her Great Marsh Divine Shovel and golden needles, while Meng Chong's God Severing Slash nearly cleaved Su Liancheng's soul.

Xu Yan's group defeated and killed the Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans Ke Linping and Su Liancheng, while Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu gained new insights from the battle. The Jade God Sect and the Su Family launched a sweeping search for Xu Yan and Meng Chong, but the strengthened Array Formation kept the group hidden.

• Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, and Fang Hao worked together to overwhelm Su Liancheng, while Xu Yan trapped Ke Linping in the Mountain River Sword Array.
• Fang Hao used the Heaven and Earth Momentum to restrain Su Liancheng and discovered that pills let him cultivate the Heaven and Earth Strange Patterns through repeated strain.
• Su Lingxiu's golden needles melted Su Liancheng's spirit-soul power, and she comprehended the Spirit Merging Needle.
• Xu Yan killed Ke Linping with the Sword Array, while Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, and Fang Hao joined forces to kill Su Liancheng.
• Li Xuan gained the Third Form of God Annihilation, and Fang Hao reinforced the Array Formation around the manor after the group returned.
• The Jade God Sect and the Su Family searched Jade Province for Xu Yan and Meng Chong, but after half a month they still found no trace of them.

The Jade God Sect and Su Family exposed the Myriad Worlds Alliance while searching for Xu Yan and Meng Chong, and Zhu Liang and Su Zheng attacked Alliance Leader Yu and his protectors. Meanwhile, Li Xuan gained a powerful Divine Martial True Body and guided Fang Hao in creating a Communication Talisman, while Alliance Leader Yu escaped after burning his essence blood.

• The Jade God Sect and Su Family exposed the Myriad Worlds Alliance, and the Spirit Sects and aristocratic families began moving to destroy it.
• Li Xuan gained the Divine Martial True Body when his Martial Dao Divine Shadow surpassed one hundred thousand, while Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu reached new cultivation milestones.
• Li Xuan instructed Fang Hao to develop communication treasures, and Fang Hao began refining a way to transmit messages more effectively.
• Alliance Leader Yu and his protectors confronted two Rogue Cultivators who had joined the Jade God Sect, but Zhu Liang and Su Zheng arrived and overwhelmed them.
• The Right Protector injured one Rogue Cultivator and escaped with the Left Protector, while Alliance Leader Yu was forced to flee from Zhu Liang and Su Zheng.
• Alliance Leader Yu burned his essence blood to escape pursuit, while Fang Hao completed a Communication Talisman that Li Xuan approved.