Chapter Summaries

Ye Zhen faced Zhou Zhian in a Heaven Ranking challenge and used his superior movement and long-reaching attacks to dominate the fight. After Zhou Zhian’s Protective Spirit Talisman stopped a potentially fatal sword strike, Ye Zhen knocked him into the air, leaving the Qi Yun Sect stunned.

• Ye Zhen delayed the match by proposing another wager, then Zhou Zhian attacked him with the Three Yuan Sword.
• Ye Zhen evaded Zhou Zhian’s sword techniques with Star Chasing Steps and taunted him, while the spectators and sect elders watched.
• At Zhou Zhian’s demand, Ye Zhen stood still and struck him with a four-zhang True Essence Sword Finger whenever he came within range.
• Zhou Zhian charged again, and Ye Zhen drew the Heavenly Crystal Sword, but a Protective Spirit Talisman shielded Zhou Zhian from the blow.
• Ye Zhen pursued Zhou Zhian and struck him in the chest with Thunder Leopard Collapse Fist, sending him flying alive as the crowd fell silent.

After Ye Zhen decisively defeated Zhou Zhian, Cao Luo challenged him with Fan Chuyu’s Low-grade Treasure Weapon, the Three Yuan Sword. Ye Zhen accepted and provoked Fan Chuyu into wagering a fortune on the outcome, leaving Jin Yuanbao staring at the enormous bet.

• Ye Zhen defeated Zhou Zhian with a single sword strike, and the sect elders and disciples marveled at his forty-foot sword aura.
• Cao Luo took the Three Yuan Sword and challenged Ye Zhen, but Fairy Caiyi scolded him for targeting a lower-ranked disciple in a wheel battle.
• Ye Zhen accepted Cao Luo’s challenge and persuaded Jin Yuanbao to open a casino, where most disciples bet against Ye Zhen.
• Ye Zhen called out Fan Chuyu, accusing him of backing Cao Luo and daring him to place a bet.
• Fan Chuyu sent Jin Yuanbao a Storage Bracelet containing one million taels in Silver Notes, one hundred thousand taels of gold, and the Three Yuan Sword as his wager.

Ye Zhen defeated Cao Luo of the Spirit Drawing Realm with a single sword strike, then revealed that he had shifted his attack to spare Cao Luo’s life. The fight ended with Ye Zhen claiming the Three Yuan Sword and a clash brewing between the sect’s peaks.

• Fan Chuyu left Cao Luo to fight Ye Zhen, while Cao Luo challenged Ye Zhen to make the first move.
• Ye Zhen gathered momentum with Plum Blossom Breaking Snow as Cao Luo waited, then Cao Luo attacked with a sword aura strengthened by Worldly Essence.
• Ye Zhen unleashed an eighty-foot sword aura and severely wounded Cao Luo with one strike, defeating him despite Cao Luo’s Protective Gang Qi.
• Cao Luo thanked Ye Zhen for sparing his life, and Ye Zhen explained that he had redirected his sword away from Cao Luo’s vital spot.
• Sword Boy from Dingguang Peak carried Cao Luo away, and Ye Zhen demanded that the Three Yuan Sword be left behind.
• Sword Boy surrendered the sword, prompting Fan Chuyu to threaten Ye Zhen as a streak of sword light shot toward Dingguang Peak and Instructor Liao Feibai shouted angrily.

Liao Feibai retaliated against Hong Banjiang by flattening thirty feet off Dingguang Peak after Ye Zhen defeated Cao Luo, and Ye Zhen returned to Fairy Maiden Peak with Fairy Caiyi. There, Liao Feibai raised the urgent matter of Little Yue Meng, while Hong Banjiang and Fan Chuyu agreed they needed to change their plan against Ye Zhen.

• Liao Feibai confronted Hong Banjiang over his disciples bullying Ye Zhen and blasted the summit of Dingguang Peak flat before Sect Master Guo Qijing made her stop.
• The disciples accepted Ye Zhen's place among the Heaven Ranking's top ten, while Ye Zhen gave Jin Yuanbao the betting proceeds and kept the Three Yuan Sword and Fan Chuyu's Storage Bracelet.
• Fairy Caiyi took Ye Zhen's hand and brought him back to Fairy Maiden Peak, stunning Fan Chuyu and prompting him to ask Hong Banjiang to change their plan.
• Hong Banjiang agreed with Fan Chuyu that Ye Zhen stood in his way, and the two decided to discuss a new plan.
• Liao Feibai arrived at Fairy Maiden Peak and told Ye Zhen that the matter of Little Yue Meng could no longer be delayed.

Instructor Liao Feibai told Ye Zhen that Little Yue Meng’s Seventh Meridian Mid-grade talent made her a future Pulse Forging Realm expert, so he had to secretly take her to Yinshan Valley to complete her inheritance. Ye Zhen also learned that the Wind Cloud Sword Art he found belonged to Qi Yun Sect’s lost sword technique method, and the Sect Master summoned him to Fairy Maiden Peak.

• Instructor Liao Feibai explained that Little Yue Meng’s Heavenly Meridian and Innate Pure Body made her cultivation unusually fast and would soon expose her talent through heavenly phenomena.
• Instructor Liao Feibai assigned Ye Zhen to take Little Yue Meng to Yinshan Valley under the cover of a nearby Sect Mission, warning that people within Qi Yun Sect coveted the secrets Meng Chuan had carried.
• Caiyi told Ye Zhen that the Wind Cloud Sword Technique was Qi Yun Sect’s ultimate skill, but its activating method, the Wind Cloud Sword Art, had been lost for nearly a hundred years.
• Ye Zhen realized that the Wind Cloud Sword Art from Tu Fangye’s Storage Ring might be the lost method and wondered whether it was connected to Tu Fangye’s death and the Sect Forbidden Ground.
• A Spirit Talisman arrived for Caiyi, who told Ye Zhen that the Sect Master was coming to Fairy Maiden Peak to see him.

Ye Zhen contributed two Li Shui Sect secret manuals to Qi Yun Sect and persuaded Sect Master Guo Qijing to let Caiyi teach him the Wind Cloud Sword Technique. After more than twenty days of training, Ye Zhen left on a sect mission with powerful protections, while Fan Chuyu learned of his departure and went to seek Fifth Elder Hong Banjiang.

• Sect Master Guo Qijing asked Ye Zhen to contribute Li Shui Sect's True Essence Sword Finger, and Ye Zhen also handed over the Flowing Water Cotton Palm manual.
• Ye Zhen used his contribution to obtain permission for Caiyi to teach him the Wind Cloud Sword Technique, which he mastered through intensive training and sparring with her.
• When Instructor Liao Feibai summoned Ye Zhen for a sect mission, Caiyi gave him a bottle of Origin Spirit Jade Liquid, and Liao Feibai supplied him with three Mysterious Ice Sword Qi Talismans.
• Ye Zhen accepted an Earth-tier Sect Mission and rode away from the sect toward its destination.
• Fan Chuyu heard that Ye Zhen had left the sect and flew to Dingguang Peak to see Fifth Elder Hong Banjiang.

Ye Zhen arrived at the Che Family residence to take on a mine-clearing mission, where his youth and cultivation led the gathered martial artists to mock him. After subduing Bloody Blade Li Kuang with a single move, Ye Zhen demanded a bath, but Li Kuang attacked him from behind as the chapter ended.

• Che Tiejun explained that he had invited Qi Yun Sect disciples partly to ensure the sect would intervene if the mine mission went badly.
• Ye Zhen arrived at the Che Family residence and introduced himself, prompting Xie Shao to recognize him as the fighter responsible for the Li Shui Sect outer disciples' deaths at the Two-Sect Grand Competition.
• Che Qiang, Xie Shao, the red-clad elder, and Bloody Blade Li Kuang mocked Ye Zhen for being only at True Essence Fourth Level.
• Ye Zhen used Star Chasing Steps to seize Li Kuang by the nape and incapacitate him, then released him at Che Tiejun's request.
• Ye Zhen demanded water so he could bathe and change, but Li Kuang drew his blade and attacked him from behind.

Ye Zhen killed Bloody Blade Li Kuang after foiling his ambush, then continued his mission despite the attention his Heavenly Crystal Sword attracted. After meeting the martial artists who would travel with him, Ye Zhen shook hands with Li Shui Sect disciple Xie Shao, who suddenly clamped down on his hand with True Essence and Spiritual Light.

• Ye Zhen used the Star Chasing Steps to evade Li Kuang’s sneak attack and beheaded him with the Heavenly Crystal Sword.
• Ye Zhen rebuked Huang Qi for defending Li Kuang’s attack, then went to bathe and change before joining Che Tiejun’s banquet.
• The martial artists noticed Ye Zhen’s Low-grade Treasure Weapon, and Xie Shao encouraged their suspicion while hiding how Ye Zhen had obtained it.
• Ye Zhen resisted the maidservants’ advances, and Che Tiejun concluded that the young disciple had unusual self-control.
• Ye Zhen chose to depart that day, and Che Tiejun introduced the martial artists accompanying him, including Xie Shao.
• Xie Shao greeted Ye Zhen and suddenly gripped his hand, releasing True Essence and Spiritual Light.

Ye Zhen warned Che Tiejun’s party that the woods ahead were dangerous, but the others dismissed his intuition and entered anyway. Just as Xie Shao mocked him, rustling sounds erupted from the woods, and Che Tiejun realized something was approaching.

• Ye Zhen blocked Xie Shao’s handshake attack with his layered Protective Gang Qi, embarrassing Xie Shao until Che Tiejun gave him an excuse to let go.
• Che Tiejun led the hired martial artists and nearly a hundred Che Family guards from Shihe City toward the Purple Copper Mine.
• On the journey, Ye Zhen befriended Cao Bufan and learned how difficult life and cultivation were for Rogue Cultivators.
• Ye Zhen sensed danger in the woods and urged Che Tiejun to take a detour, but Yan Shan, Xie Shao, and the others mocked or dismissed his warning.
• Che Tiejun ordered the party into the woods, where rustling sounds broke out just as Xie Shao taunted Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen and the Che Family’s clearing party suffered severe losses when a flock of Tiger-striped Flying Snakes ambushed them, after others had dismissed his warning. The survivors reached the Purple Copper Mine and split into teams to clear its tunnels, leaving Ye Zhen, Swift Sword Cao Bufan, and Iron Palm Gao Xiong together in the right-hand tunnel.

• More than three hundred Tiger-striped Flying Snakes attacked the party, killing over forty Che Family clansmen and leaving fewer than sixty people standing.
• The Che Family’s Sixth Elder blamed Ye Zhen for his son Che Shan’s death, but Ye Zhen reminded him that he had urged the party to detour; Che Tiejun apologized and struck himself in remorse.
• After the party resumed its journey, Che Tiejun sought Ye Zhen’s advice, and Xie Shao and Stone River Oddity Yan Shan stopped openly questioning him.
• The party arrived at the Purple Copper Mine, where Che Tiejun proposed splitting nine fighters into three groups to clear the connected tunnels.
• Yan Shan and the Red Robe Venerable chose the strongest fighters first, leaving Ye Zhen, Swift Sword Cao Bufan, and Iron Palm Gao Xiong together; Xie Shao mocked Ye Zhen, and Gao Xiong reluctantly accepted the arrangement.
• Ye Zhen led Cao Bufan and Gao Xiong into the right-hand tunnel, privately confident that their group might not be at a disadvantage.

Ye Zhen, Cao Bufan, and Gao Xiong fought through the right mine tunnel and suspected that a hidden treasure had drawn the Monster Beasts there. At the tunnel junction, Xie Shao used Gao Xiong as bait for a Mid-grade Earth-tier Azure Origin Purple Clear Tiger and attacked Ye Zhen, who charged into Xie Shao’s sword strike rather than retreat into the tiger’s jaws.

• Ye Zhen killed a Harpy Ghost-faced Cat with one strike, then repeatedly outpaced Cao Bufan and Gao Xiong as they fought through the mine tunnel.
• After the trio found far more Monster Beasts than expected, Ye Zhen reasoned that a treasure deeper in the tunnels was attracting them.
• Ye Zhen, Cao Bufan, and Gao Xiong reached the end of the right passage without finding treasure, then turned back toward the connecting tunnels.
• An Azure Origin Purple Clear Tiger burst from the middle passage, and Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan wounded its tail to save the fleeing Xie Shao.
• Xie Shao kicked Gao Xiong into the tiger’s jaws, then attacked Ye Zhen from behind while the tiger charged from the other direction.
• Ye Zhen advanced into Xie Shao’s sword strike, relying on his Protective Gang Qi instead of retreating into the tiger’s jaws.

Ye Zhen survived Xie Shao’s betrayal, trapped him with the Azure Origin Purple Clear Tiger, and escaped the mine with Cao Bufan. After learning that the Che Family’s men had died or been injured, Ye Zhen grew suspicious of the Sixth Elder and Che Tiejun when they insisted he drink their broth and claimed Xie Shao was alive.

• Xie Shao’s sword failed to penetrate Ye Zhen’s Hundred Layered True Gang, and Ye Zhen pulled Cao Bufan past him while sending the Azure Origin Purple Clear Tiger into Xie Shao.
• Ye Zhen collapsed the mine passage, trapping Xie Shao and the tiger, then ignored Xie Shao’s cries for help as the tiger killed him.
• Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan found Xie Shao’s remains and the dying tiger, collected its Monster Core and other spoils, and left the mine.
• Che Tiejun told Ye Zhen that Yan Shan and his Ninth Brother had died fighting the tiger while Huang Qi and the Red Robe Venerable were recovering.
• The Che Family’s Sixth Elder and Che Tiejun urged Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan to drink broth, but Ye Zhen became suspicious and asked where Xie Shao was.
• Che Tiejun claimed Xie Shao was recovering in a tent, shocking Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan.

Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan exposed Che Tiejun’s scheme and fought the Che Family after refusing his offer of Chronic Poison Pills. Ye Zhen killed Che Tiejun with Wind Sweeping Clouds, then recovered with Origin Spirit Jade Liquid and helped Cao Bufan defeat the remaining attackers; they prepared to investigate the mine tunnels.

• Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan attacked Che Tiejun and Che Family Sixth after realizing the meat soup was poisoned and that Che Tiejun had lied about Xie Shao.
• Che Tiejun revealed his plan to kill them and blame the deaths on Rogue Cultivators, then refused to explain what treasure lay in the mine.
• Ye Zhen battled Che Tiejun and killed him with Wind Sweeping Clouds, a strike that consumed nearly all his True Essence.
• Che Yuan led Che Family clansmen to attack the exhausted Ye Zhen, but Ye Zhen restored his strength with Origin Spirit Jade Liquid and killed the attackers.
• Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan defeated Che Family Sixth, while the surviving Che Family clansmen fled.
• Ye Zhen asked Cao Bufan to inspect the other mine tunnels and discover what treasure the Che Family had been hiding.

Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan discovered a Spirit Crystal Mine and mined hundreds of Low-grade Spirit Crystals before Qu Zhanqian, Hong Banjiang’s powerful disciple, confronted Ye Zhen. Ye Zhen used Instructor Liao Feibai’s Mysterious Ice Sword Light Talisman to badly wound Qu Zhanqian, who fled as Ye Zhen pursued him.

• Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan found exposed Low-grade Spirit Crystals in the central mine tunnel and began mining the Spirit Crystal Mine.
• Cao Bufan found Spirit Crystals in the left tunnel, while Ye Zhen mined for twelve hours and gathered more than seven hundred Low-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Qu Zhanqian confronted Ye Zhen, revealed that Hong Banjiang had sent him to capture Ye Zhen’s secret, and threatened to kill him.
• Ye Zhen pretended to surrender and asked Qu Zhanqian to deliver money to his parents, then activated Instructor Liao Feibai’s Mysterious Ice Sword Light Talisman.
• The sword light severed Qu Zhanqian’s left arm and filled his body with Profound Ice Sword Qi, but he broke free and fled toward the mine entrance.
• Ye Zhen used Star Chasing Steps to pursue Qu Zhanqian.

Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan trapped the Che Family’s reinforcements and drove Qu Zhanqian away from the Spirit Crystal Mine, then escaped to Pingjiang Town. After hearing that the Hu Family had destroyed the Che Family, Ye Zhen spotted a woman carrying a Biyou Umbrella and hurried after her.

• Ye Zhen forced the injured Qu Zhanqian to flee and told Cao Bufan they had only two days to mine the Spirit Crystal Mine.
• Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan gathered thousands of Spirit Crystals, then baited the mine with exposed crystals and Monster Beast remains before leaving.
• The Che Family Old Ancestor and two elders entered the mine, where Monster Beasts killed the Che Family’s remaining elite forces.
• Qu Zhanqian returned to the mine two days later but fled after finding it occupied by powerful Monster Beasts.
• Ye Zhen and Cao Bufan reached Pingjiang Town, where Ye Zhen heard that the Hu Family had wiped out the Che Family.
• Ye Zhen noticed a woman in green carrying a Biyou Umbrella outside the tavern and pursued her.

Ye Zhen reunited with Little Yue Meng and, with Green Vine, planned a covert route into Yinshan Blood Gorge to help her complete her inheritance. As they set out, Chu Jun pursued a lead on Ye Zhen while Hong Banjiang revealed he had arranged to borrow someone else’s hand to kill him.

• Ye Zhen met Green Vine, who used a Talisman Array to protect Little Yue Meng and revealed that she was a Spirit Drawing Late Stage cultivator disguised as a weaker one.
• Green Vine explained that Li Shui Sect guards blocked the routes into Yinshan Blood Gorge, so she, Ye Zhen, and Little Yue Meng planned to take a dangerous detour and leave in five days.
• Ye Zhen cultivated with sixteen Condensing True Pills each night, bringing his cultivation close to the Peak True Essence Fourth Layer.
• Ye Zhen, Green Vine, and Little Yue Meng left Pingjiang Town for the rear of Yinshan Blood Gorge, intending to slip inside and help Little Yue Meng complete her inheritance.
• Chu Jun learned that Ye Zhen might be near Shihe City and rushed there to kill him, while Chu Taiping chose not to send assistance.
• Fan Chuyu urged Hong Banjiang to act against Ye Zhen, and Hong Banjiang said he had arranged to borrow a knife to kill someone.

Ye Zhen, Green Vine, and Little Yue Meng fought off four predatory martial artists, then hid from a Crimson Flame Violent Bear using Green Vine’s talisman array. As a Southern Barbarian Spirit Master discovered them, Ye Zhen broke through to True Essence Fifth Layer.

• Green Vine and Ye Zhen killed four Spirit Drawing Realm martial artists who had tried to rob and assault them.
• A Crimson Flame Violent Bear arrived, and Green Vine concealed the group with a Minor Maze Talisman Array until the beast ate the corpses and left.
• Ye Zhen asked Green Vine about talisman arrays and learned that refining them required Divine Sense and at least Spirit Drawing Realm cultivation.
• The group continued through Yin Mountain and rested in a cave near the Memorial Stele of the Eight Hundred Brave Men of Yin Mountain.
• While cultivating, Ye Zhen heard Green Vine warn that Southern Barbarian Spirit Masters had found them, and the pressure of one shattered his bottleneck, raising him to True Essence Fifth Layer.

Ye Zhen and Green Vine fought a Southern Barbarian Spirit Master and his beasts after their group was tracked to a cave. Ye Zhen killed the Spirit Master's four companions, but the remaining Spirit Master empowered his beasts and attacked Ye Zhen, who countered with a Mysterious Ice Sword Light Talisman.

• The Ten Thousand Mile Wind Chasing Dog led five Southern Barbarian Spirit Cultivators and thirteen Monster Beasts to Ye Zhen, Green Vine, and Xiao Yue at the cave.
• The Southern Barbarian Spirit Master ordered his beasts to attack and demanded that the women be captured alive; Green Vine offered Ye Zhen two Jade Talismans in case they could not escape.
• Ye Zhen used Wind Sweeping Clouds to wound the Protective Giant Python, killed a Low-grade Earth-tier Monster Beast, and then killed two Southern Barbarian Spirit Users with Bone-Chilling Plum Blossom while Green Vine restrained the Azure Origin Purple Clear Tiger.
• After Ye Zhen killed the remaining two Southern Barbarian Spirit Users, their Demonic Servants fell into disarray, but the surviving Spirit Master enraged his four beasts and boosted their strength.
• Surrounded by the Spirit Master and three empowered beasts, Ye Zhen activated a Mysterious Ice Sword Light Talisman and sent its blade toward the charging Spirit Master.

Ye Zhen killed the Southern Barbarian Spirit Master, discovered the secret behind the Demonic Servants’ deaths, and recovered a beast-taming manual before his group reached Yinshan Blood Gorge. As Green Vine considered a dangerous way inside, Little Yue Meng sensed her father’s aura nearby.

• Ye Zhen’s Mysterious Ice Sword Light Talisman killed the Southern Barbarian Spirit Master, and the four berserk Demonic Servants died as their heads burst.
• Ye Zhen searched the corpses and found the Hundred Beasts Spirit Communication Art, learning that its Berserk Secret Technique caused the Demonic Servants’ souls to collapse when their master died.
• Ye Zhen, Green Vine, and Little Yue Meng fled the battlefield, recovered from their injuries over three days, and reached the rear of Yinshan Blood Gorge.
• Ye Zhen and Green Vine scouted six Li Shui Sect guard posts and found the gorge’s entrances watched, making an undetected entry highly dangerous.
• As Green Vine began explaining her risky plan to enter the gorge, Little Yue Meng sensed her father’s aura ahead.

Ye Zhen used his ability to transform into a Silver Thread Demonic Eagle and fly with Little Yue Meng into Yinshan Blood Gorge, avoiding Li Shui Sect guards. There, Little Yue Meng sensed her father’s inheritance, and the inheritance began with a huge surge of Spiritual Light.

• Green Vine proposed crossing the canyon wall, but Ye Zhen chose to fly using his Silver Thread Demonic Eagle transformation.
• Ye Zhen transformed, carried Little Yue Meng through the air, and descended into Yinshan Blood Gorge while Li Shui Sect guards spotted the eagle but left it alone.
• After landing, Ye Zhen followed Little Yue Meng farther into the gorge as she sensed the aura of her father, Meng Chuan.
• Little Yue Meng called out to her father, causing a strand of Spiritual Light to summon tens of thousands of strands from beneath Yinshan Blood Gorge.