Chapter Summaries

Ye Zhen faced Swift Sword Yue Qi in the courtyard and overcame Yue Qi’s rapid swordsmanship with the Wind Cloud Sword Technique. After defeating Yue Qi with a lightning-wreathed strike, Ye Zhen recognized how much his strength had grown, while the spectators looked on in shock.

• Yan Kunshan praised Yue Qi as Yue Qi’s swift sword forced Ye Zhen onto the defensive, while Hai Luoshuang remained confident Ye Zhen would not be easily defeated.
• Yue Qi unleashed A Line to Heaven, but Ye Zhen used the Spirit Light Manifestation Secret Art to evade it and countered with Wind Sweeping Clouds.
• As Yue Qi regained his footing, Hai Luoshuang noticed that Ye Zhen’s repeated attacks were building sword clouds above him.
• Ye Zhen gathered the sword clouds and struck with Eight Directions Wind Cloud Fall, combining sword light and real lightning to overwhelm Yue Qi’s A Line to Heaven.
• Ye Zhen pulled back his sword before the blow became fatal, and Yue Qi fell, shocked and injured.
• Yue Qi thanked Ye Zhen for showing mercy as the crowd stared in astonishment, and Ye Zhen reflected on his growing strength.

Ye Zhen defeated Swift Sword Yue Qi and gained a place among the Seventy-two Meteorites, along with a Myriad Stars Plate that gave him access to missions, information, and Star Points. After joining Myriad Stars Tower, he decided to leave the Illusory God Empire before his identity was exposed, but first he needed to settle his false marriage agreement with Green Vine.

• Ye Zhen defeated Yue Qi in a fair duel, taking his thirty-eighth rank among the Seventy-two Meteorites.
• Hai Luoshuang gave Ye Zhen a Myriad Stars Plate, which displayed tower information and enabled members to post missions and transfer Star Points.
• Yue Qi transferred Ye Zhen thirteen thousand two hundred Star Points and explained how the plate worked.
• Hai Luoshuang explained that elite members received priority access to scarce resources, and Ye Zhen accepted the benefits and conflicts that came with joining Myriad Stars Tower.
• Ye Zhen left Star Picking Pavilion intending to depart the Illusory God Empire before his identity was exposed, but he resolved to settle his marriage agreement with Green Vine first.

Ye Zhen left the Imperial Capital after exchanging talisman guides with Green Vine, who secretly resented his obliviousness about their marriage agreement. He settled in Rainbow Forest to cultivate the complete Shattered Jade True Scripture and began converting his spiritual energy with Green Spirit Jade.

• Ye Zhen offered to marry Green Vine and agreed to remain in the Illusory God Empire for half a year, ready to answer her Talisman Signal.
• Ye Zhen and Green Vine exchanged talisman guides, and he left the Imperial Capital while Green Vine complained that he was a blockhead for treating their marriage as a favor.
• Green Vine and Han Tai set out for the Qing Luo Sect as Ye Zhen rode toward Rainbow Forest, where he planned to cultivate in seclusion.
• Ye Zhen entered Rainbow Forest, cleared a tree hollow for his residence, and discovered that the Shattered Jade True Scripture completed the Shattered Jade Battle Body’s teachings.
• Ye Zhen prepared a large pile of Green Spirit Jade and told Little Cat to keep watch while he began cultivating the scripture.

After three months of intensive cultivation in Rainbow Forest, Ye Zhen watched Cloud Winged Tiger Little Cat fight an Azure Origin Purple Clear Tiger King in hopes that the ordeal would trigger its advancement. Little Cat did not break through, but Ye Zhen tested his newly mastered Azure Jade Seal, and the pair left their training site to replenish his Green Spirit Jade.

• Cloud Winged Tiger Little Cat fought the Azure Origin Purple Clear Tiger King after the King pursued it over its secret meetings with a female tiger, whom the King had killed.
• Ye Zhen urged Little Cat to fight through its grief, hoping the intense provocation would help it advance beyond Mid-grade Earth-tier, but the Tiger King repeatedly overwhelmed it.
• When the Tiger King launched a fatal blow, Ye Zhen shielded Little Cat with his Azure Jade Spirit Armor and then used the Azure Jade Seal to suppress and severely injure the King.
• Little Cat attacked and devoured the Tiger King, including its Monster Core, but showed no sign of advancing.
• Ye Zhen washed Little Cat and left the training site with it, intending to buy more Green Spirit Jade after using up his supply.

Ye Zhen traveled toward Jade Water City to buy Green Spirit Jade and encountered Yu Ning, whose uncle’s men had ambushed him to prevent him from attending the Jade God Grand Sacrifice. Just as Protector Wu’s attack threatened Yu Ning, a sword light intervened, leaving the attackers’ next move uncertain.

• Ye Zhen changed his destination to Jade Water City after realizing that traveling to the Imperial Capital would take him too far from Green Vine’s Talisman Signals, but he became lost along the way.
• Yu Ning and his guards stopped at a spring, where their Green Flame Ghost Steeds collapsed after eating poisoned feed.
• Protector Wu and his companions revealed that Third Master had arranged the ambush and attacked Yu Ning and his guards.
• Protector Wu killed Zhou Xiong, while the fierce saber wielder’s strike failed to injure Yu Ning’s powerful body protection.
• Protector Wu launched a flaming palm strike at Yu Ning, but a sudden sword light shattered it and carved a long scar in the ground.

Ye Zhen rescued Yu Ning and Uncle Liu from Protector Wu’s group, killing their attackers with his sword and Azure Jade Spiritual Power. After accepting Yu Ning’s Green Spirit Jade, Ye Zhen agreed to escort him home when Uncle Liu revealed the Yu Family had something better than Green Spirit Jade.

• Ye Zhen confronted Protector Wu and his men after rescuing Yu Ning and Uncle Liu from their attack.
• Ye Zhen killed the burly saber wielder and another martial artist, while his Azure Jade Spirit Armor extinguished Protector Wu’s Flame Spirit Energy.
• Ye Zhen struck Protector Wu down with the Azure Jade Seal, and Uncle Liu finished him off as another attacker escaped.
• Yu Ning offered Ye Zhen ten thousand pieces of Green Spirit Jade, which Ye Zhen accepted after learning Yu Ning also cultivated Jade Spiritual Power.
• Uncle Liu asked Ye Zhen to escort Yu Ning to the Yu Family of Jade Water Lake and promised the family had something better than Green Spirit Jade.

Ye Zhen, Yu Ning, and Uncle Liu traveled across Jade Water Lake toward the Yu Family stronghold, and Yu Ning explained how Jade Heart Grass kept the routes safe. They were ambushed by the Sea Overturning Grand Marshal after someone destroyed the grass marking their route, while Second Miss Yu was carried away from the attack despite pleading to save her brother.

• Uncle Liu hired a fishing boat, and Ye Zhen protected it with spirit power as they crossed Jade Water Lake toward Floating Jade Island.
• Yu Ning explained that the Yu Family cultivated Jade Heart Grass to mark safe routes and preserve its control of the lake.
• The group spotted a ship bearing Second Miss Yu and sped toward it, believing the Yu Family had sent help.
• Ye Zhen noticed the route markers were missing, and Uncle Liu warned that they had entered the territory of a powerful aquatic demon.
• The Sea Overturning Grand Marshal surged from the lake and swallowed Ye Zhen, Yu Ning, and Uncle Liu in a towering whirlpool.
• Second Miss Yu begged the retainers to rescue her brother, but they restrained her and fled into the sky.

Ye Zhen used the Azure Jade Seal to suppress the Sea Overturning Grand Marshal long enough for the ship and fleeing martial artists to escape, then detonated the seal and fled skyward. As the wounded beast rampaged below, a hidden attacker struck at Ye Zhen from behind.

• Second Miss Yu struggled to return to her brother, but Ye Zhen's Azure Jade Seal temporarily suppressed the Sea Overturning Grand Marshal.
• Ye Zhen strengthened the seal with the Battle Soul Blood Banner and gave the ship's passengers a hundred breaths to escape.
• Uncle Liu rallied the Spirit Drawing Realm martial artists and sailors, and they propelled the ship away with Yu Ning and Second Miss Yu aboard.
• After the ship escaped, Ye Zhen detonated the Azure Jade Seal, wounded the Sea Overturning Grand Marshal, and flew into the sky.
• A concealed attacker sent a sword aura toward Ye Zhen's back and accused him of ruining their plans.

Ye Zhen survived Yu Ning’s third uncle’s ambush and escorted the Yu Family to Fish Island, where a poisoned banquet exposed the uncle’s scheme. Ye Zhen secretly resisted the poison, but pretended to collapse as the third uncle confronted him.

• A fifth-layer Spirit Transformation Realm ambusher struck Ye Zhen’s Azure Jade Spirit Armor, then fled when the attack failed; Ye Zhen suspected he was Yu Ning’s third uncle.
• Ye Zhen met Uncle Liu, caught up with the ship, and learned that Yu Ning’s third uncle was at the peak of the fifth layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Ye Zhen recovered on the ship, received the sailors’ thanks, and accompanied the Yu Family to Fish Island because sailing at night was dangerous.
• At dinner, Ye Zhen noticed that the lake delicacy soup stirred his Azure Jade Spiritual Power and warned that it was poisoned; the others collapsed from Ten Fragrance Soft Pulse Powder.
• Ye Zhen’s Azure Jade Spiritual Power refined the poison, but he pretended to collapse as Yu Ning’s third uncle entered and claimed responsibility for the poisoning and his earlier schemes.

Ye Zhen killed Yu Hailong after resisting the poison that had incapacitated the Yu Family, then confronted Yu Feilong for watching without intervening. He agreed to accompany the Yu Family to Floating Jade Island to collect Red Spirit Jade, despite suspecting Yu Feilong had wanted him to kill Yu Hailong.

• Yu Hailong approached Ye Zhen, but Ye Zhen struck him with the Floating Cloud Finger and fatally pulverized his lower abdomen.
• Ye Zhen ended Yu Hailong's suffering with a second strike, then sensed someone hidden outside the doorway.
• Ye Zhen destroyed the doorway with the Profound Yang Sword and revealed Yu Ning and Yu Jing's father, Yu Feilong, who freed the poisoned captives.
• Ye Zhen rebuked Yu Feilong for standing by while Yu Hailong threatened his children and demanded his payment before leaving.
• Yu Feilong offered five thousand pieces of Red Spirit Jade and invited Ye Zhen to Floating Jade Island, while Ye Zhen suspected he had wanted Yu Hailong killed.
• After weighing the risks and the value of Red Spirit Jade, Ye Zhen agreed to go to Floating Jade Island.

Ye Zhen accepted Yu Feilong’s gifts and agreed to witness the Yu Family’s Jade God Grand Sacrifice, while wondering whether his Shattered Jade True Scripture was connected to the clan. At the ceremony, he saw the Jade God statue and reacted with shock.

• Yu Feilong rewarded Ye Zhen with Red Spirit Jade, Green Spirit Jade, and Green Spirit Jade Marrow, then apologized for his past conduct and asked him to witness the Jade God Grand Sacrifice.
• Ye Zhen accepted Yu Feilong’s request and spent the following days exploring Floating Jade Island with Yu Ning and Yu Jing.
• Ye Zhen noticed that Yu Ning and Yu Jing recovered quickly from poison through their Jade Spirit Energy and wondered whether his Shattered Jade True Scripture was related to the Yu Family.
• Yu Jing took Ye Zhen to see Falling Jade Mountain’s scenic wonder, where the sight of the falling jade-like dew made him think of Caiyi and Green Vine.
• Yu Feilong began the Jade God Grand Sacrifice and ordered the ancestral temple doors opened, revealing a jade statue that made Ye Zhen’s heart pound and his pupils contract.

Ye Zhen became intent on obtaining the Yu Family’s Crimson Spirit Jade Marrow, but Yu Feilong surprised him by proposing that he marry Yu Jing so she could avoid the Flower King’s Consort Selection. Learning that the selection was approaching, Ye Zhen realized it was also the reason Green Vine’s master had rushed to arrange her marriage.

• Ye Zhen saw the watermelon-sized Crimson Spirit Jade Marrow at the Yu Family’s Jade God altar and decided to find a way to trade for it.
• After the clan sacrifice, Yu Feilong visited Ye Zhen and asked whether he would marry Yu Jing.
• Yu Feilong explained that he wanted Yu Jing married before the Southern Flower King’s Consort Selection in two or three months.
• Ye Zhen realized that Green Vine’s master had been rushing to marry her off to protect her from the same selection.
• Ye Zhen recalled that the Tiannan Hua Family had destroyed those who refused its past consort selections, leaving marriage as the only known way to avoid being chosen.

Ye Zhen rejected Yu Feilong’s marriage proposal but asked to buy the Yu Family’s Crimson Spirit Jade Marrow. After Yu Feilong offered it at a suspiciously low price, Ye Zhen sent Little Cat to follow him and discovered the Yu Family was plotting to seize the Shattered Jade True Scripture.

• Ye Zhen refused Yu Feilong’s proposal to marry Yu Jing, saying he regarded her as a younger sister.
• Ye Zhen asked to buy the Crimson Spirit Jade Marrow, and Yu Feilong offered it for 150,000 Low-grade Spirit Crystals, promising to hand it over no earlier than the next day.
• Ye Zhen grew suspicious of Yu Feilong’s unusually generous offer and sent Little Cat to follow him through the mist.
• Little Cat overheard Yu Feilong and the four Yu Family elders discuss recovering the Shattered Jade True Scripture from Ye Zhen.
• Yu Feilong said he would lure Ye Zhen to the inner hall the next morning and try to capture him in one stroke, leaving Ye Zhen ashen-faced.

After discovering that the Yu Family had plotted to seize the Shattered Jade True Scripture, Ye Zhen escaped Floating Jade Island and killed a Consecrated Elder who tried to stop him. He hid on an uninhabited island to cultivate with Green Spirit Jade Marrow while Yu Feilong searched the Jade Water Lake Domain, leaving the Yu Family unaware of where he would strike next.

• Ye Zhen realized Yu Feilong had planned to use Yu Jing to obtain the Shattered Jade True Scripture and then turn against him when he refused.
• When a Yu Family Consecrated Elder blocked his escape and sent up a warning signal, Ye Zhen killed him and fled on Cloud Winged Tiger Little Cat.
• Yu Feilong failed to catch Ye Zhen, activated the Yu Family's island alert formations, and ordered the family to search for him.
• Ye Zhen hid on an uninhabited island three thousand li east of Jade Water Lake and began cultivating the Shattered Jade True Scripture with Green Spirit Jade Marrow.
• After three days of fruitless searching, Yu Feilong ordered the Yu Family to concentrate on uninhabited islands and resumed the search himself, troubled by an ominous premonition.

Ye Zhen broke through to the second level of the Spirit Transformation Realm and revealed himself to the Yu Family search party. After killing Yu Zhengyang and a Yu Family retainer, he flew toward Floating Jade Island, leaving Yu Feilong to discover the bodies.

• Ye Zhen transformed his meridians and bones, advancing to the second level of the Spirit Transformation Realm, though his armor remained Azure Jade.
• Yu Zhengyang and a Yu Family retainer heard Ye Zhen's howl, found him, and sent Talisman Signals to summon the others.
• Ye Zhen severely wounded Yu Zhengyang with the Crimson Jade Seal, while Cloud Winged Tiger Little Cat and Ye Zhen killed the fleeing retainer.
• Ye Zhen questioned Yu Zhengyang about the Yu Family's claim to the Shattered Jade True Scripture, then killed him.
• Ye Zhen rode Cloud Winged Tiger Little Cat toward Floating Jade Island, and Yu Feilong later found the two headless corpses.

Ye Zhen terrorized the Yu Family from hiding, killing six of its experts and leaving their heads on the Jade Pagoda while Yu Feilong scrambled to protect the family. As the Yu Family’s panic deepened, Great Elder Yu Zhenglin went out as bait, hoping to draw Ye Zhen into an ambush.

• Yu Family guards found the heads of the Second Elder and Retainer Zhang on the Jade Pagoda, and Yu Ning alerted the absent family experts.
• Yu Feilong returned and discovered the heads of the Fourth Elder and Retainer Miao, then sent warnings and flew out to escort returning retainers.
• Ye Zhen killed Retainer Zhou and Retainer Xu, bringing the number of Yu Family experts he had killed to six, while he watched from the clouds with Little Cat.
• Yu Feilong’s furious challenge failed to draw Ye Zhen out, and the Yu Family tightened its patrols as fear spread across Floating Jade Island.
• Ye Zhen wounded a patrol retainer with Spirit Arrows, and Great Elder Yu Zhenglin volunteered to serve as bait while Yu Feilong prepared to ambush Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen ambushed and killed Yu Zhenglin, then escaped Yu Feilong’s powerful attack and pursuit. After returning to find more heads displayed on the Jade Pagoda, Yu Feilong collapsed, later awoke, and emerged from his study with a solution to the Yu Family’s crisis.

• Ye Zhen used the Cloud Winged Tiger to distract Yu Zhenglin, then detonated the Crimson Jade Seal and killed him with a sword strike.
• Yu Feilong attacked Ye Zhen with Jade Dragon Break, but Ye Zhen endured the strike and escaped on the Cloud Winged Tiger.
• Yu Feilong returned carrying Yu Zhenglin’s corpse and found two more severed heads displayed on the Jade Pagoda, prompting Yu Jing to demand an explanation.
• Yu Feilong ordered the Yu Family to remain inside the compound, then collapsed from exhaustion and was later awakened.
• Yu Feilong reassured the clan that he had a solution, shut himself in his study, and emerged a day later as the family watched anxiously.

Yu Feilong surrendered to Ye Zhen and offered the Yu Family’s Crimson Spirit Jade Marrow and Red Spirit Jades in exchange for the family’s survival. Ye Zhen demanded annual payments and promised the Shattered Jade Battle Body, then revealed he had once been willing to trade it for the jade marrow, leaving Yu Feilong stricken with regret.

• Yu Feilong summoned Zheng Fuyun, sealed his cultivation, and admitted defeat while asking him to spare the Yu Family.
• Ye Zhen rejected the Crimson Spirit Jade Marrow and twenty thousand Red Spirit Jades, prompting Yu Feilong to cut off his own arm and plead for mercy.
• Ye Zhen demanded fifty thousand Red Spirit Jades each year for three years, with the first payment due in half a year, and promised the Shattered Jade Battle Body in return.
• Yu Feilong agreed to the terms, and Ye Zhen revealed that two months earlier he had wanted to trade the same technique for the Crimson Spirit Jade Marrow.
• Yu Feilong vomited blood in regret, and Ye Zhen asked Yu Ning whether he hated him; Yu Ning shook his head while Yu Jing wept.

Ye Zhen reached the Qing Luo Sect and learned that Green Vine had been placed under house arrest after the Tiannan Hua Family selected her as a consort candidate. He and Han Tai headed for Nameless Little Peak, where an enemy appeared just as they prepared to act.

• Ye Zhen arrived at the Qing Luo Sect and was told Green Vine was not receiving visitors.
• Han Tai told Ye Zhen that Wen Tianyu had sent Green Vine’s portrait to the Tiannan Hua Family’s steward and that Green Vine had been placed under guard.
• Ye Zhen learned that Qing Luo Sect disciples were guarding Green Vine at the elders’ direction and sent True Person Bixin a Talisman Signal asking who had ordered her house arrest.
• Ye Zhen and Han Tai hurried toward Nameless Little Peak, discussing the sect master’s indecisive nature and the four True Disciples guarding Green Vine.
• A figure confronted Ye Zhen and mocked him about his green-looking hair.

Ye Zhen confronted Wen Tianyu after learning that he had betrayed Green Vine to the Tiannan Hua Family, and overpowered him in a brutal fight. With True Person Bixin’s approval, Ye Zhen resumed beating Wen Tianyu and declared he would cripple him as True Person Tianzhu rushed in to stop him.

• Wen Tianyu admitted that he had contacted the Tiannan Hua Family’s steward and delivered Green Vine’s portrait, provoking Ye Zhen to attack.
• Ye Zhen revealed his second-level Spirit Transformation cultivation and used the Azure Jade Spirit Armor to withstand Wen Tianyu’s sword strike.
• Ye Zhen broke through Wen Tianyu’s defenses and repeatedly punched him while onlookers watched in shock.
• Qing Luo Sect disciples intervened, but Wen Tianyu taunted Ye Zhen and confessed again to betraying Green Vine; Han Tai confirmed the confession.
• True Person Bixin told Ye Zhen she would handle the aftermath as long as he did not kill Wen Tianyu, and Ye Zhen continued beating him, vowing to cripple him.
• True Person Tianzhu rushed toward Ye Zhen with a killing aura after learning of the fight.