Chapter Summaries

After the Immortal Embryo Spirit Seed True Scripture left Qin Yang nearly drained, he repeatedly restarted his life to inherit his cultivation and treasured items. Reborn with his resources secured and his cultivation at the Core Formation Realm Third Layer, he killed Bai Feng and Xuan Chengzi as he prepared to leave.

• The scripture's side effects drained Qin Yang's qi and blood, so he decided to restart and inherit his possessions before risking their loss.
• Qin Yang killed himself and restarted five times, inheriting his cultivation level, the Evil God's Finger Bone, the Sword Sect's sacred artifact, the Evil God's Flesh and Skin, the Innate Jade Spirit Stone, and the Innate Sword Embryo.
• After awakening with his treasures secured, Qin Yang reviewed his cultivation methods and discarded the Cloud Gazing Qi Swallowing Art, Calm Cloud Swordplay, and Spirit Seed Creation True Scripture.
• Qin Yang prepared to leave after resolving his karma with the Yunqing Sect and Phantom Sect.
• Bai Feng confronted Qin Yang, who killed him with a wisp of Sword Qi.
• Qin Yang cleaved the Pill Refining Room and killed Xuan Chengzi with a crimson strand of Sword Qi.

Qin Yang set out to investigate the Nine Spirit Ancient Mountain Range in Lingzhou and decided to begin settling his karma with the Tianyin Sect by killing its people. He killed Shi Yunlu and two other saintesses, then attacked Wei Yuan, whose battle with Qin Yang began as the chapter ended.

• Qin Yang decided to sever his karma with the Tianyin Sect and travel to the Nine Spirit Ancient Mountain Range, the location of which he learned was in Lingzhou.
• Qin Yang learned that he could reach Lingzhou by taking a ferry from Wind Spirit City and used the Qiankun Technique to locate Wei Yuan and the three Tianyin Sect saintesses.
• Qin Yang confronted Shi Yunlu and the other two saintesses, killed them with crimson Sword Qi, and fed their souls to the Innate Fiendish Soul.
• Qin Yang found Wei Yuan hidden in a primeval forest and shattered the formation protecting his retreat.
• Qin Yang attacked Wei Yuan with the Cloud Sea Returning Sect Sword Intent and True Martial Qi Infusion Method, then sent out his Innate Sword Embryo.

Qin Yang defeated and killed Wei Yuan, ending the immediate threat from the Tianyin Sect, then traveled to Wind Spirit City to seek a flying vessel. He entered the city after passing an inspection for evil cultivators, leaving him free to explore its offerings.

• Qin Yang used the Innate Sword Embryo and Innate Fiendish Soul to overwhelm Wei Yuan and destroy his Myriad Souls Thousand Kill Formation.
• Qin Yang anticipated Wei Yuan's Demonic Blood Soul Splitting Technique, tracked his escaping soul with the Innate Fiendish Soul, and killed him with a sword strike.
• Qin Yang used the Qiankun Technique to perform a divination, then set out for Wind Spirit City.
• Qin Yang reached Wind Spirit City after three days and two nights and saw its massive walls, gates, and bustling streets.
• Qin Yang learned that Wind Spirit City was inspecting arrivals because evil cultivators were crossing from Lingzhou to seek the Evil God's Blessing at White Bone Ridge, then used his cultivation to pass the inspection.

Qin Yang went to Wind Spirit City and sought a way to afford passage to Lingzhou on its enormous flying boat. He began hunting the evil cultivators hiding in Green Wind Mountain, using their souls to cultivate an Immortal Embryo as he worked toward maturing his first one.

• Qin Yang learned that a passenger cabin on the flying boat cost one thousand High-grade Spirit Stones and decided to earn money by hunting evil cultivators.
• Qin Yang discovered that Death Spirit Sect and Black Soul Temple cultivators plagued the routes around Wind Spirit City, and that the City Lord's Manor offered a bounty for their heads.
• Qin Yang traveled to Green Wind Mountain, located a Death Spirit Sect lair, and killed its thirteen cultivators with his sword intent and Sword Qi.
• Qin Yang used the cultivators' living souls to cultivate a mid-grade Water Spirit Root as an Immortal Embryo and considered the gains from their blood and qi.
• Qin Yang decided to raid another lair, expecting his first Immortal Embryo Spirit Seed to mature soon.

Qin Yang slaughtered several evil cultivator strongholds in Green Wind Mountain, gathering Spirit Stones and nurturing three Immortal Embryo Spirit Seeds. After rescuing Liu Qingqing and two other Lingwu Palace disciples from Death Spirit Sect, he demanded a tangible reward for saving them.

• Qin Yang searched the corpses of evil cultivators and took their Spirit Stones before finding and wiping out a Black Soul Temple stronghold.
• Qin Yang collected the monks’ heads, learned that his first Mid-grade Immortal Embryo Spirit Seed had matured, and began nurturing a second seed.
• Qin Yang swept through four or five more strongholds, amassed over eight hundred High-grade Spirit Stones, and prepared three Immortal Embryo Spirit Seeds.
• Qin Yang destroyed a Death Spirit Sect stronghold and freed Liu Qingqing and two other imprisoned Lingwu Palace disciples.
• Liu Qingqing thanked Qin Yang and explained how the disciples had been captured, and Qin Yang asked her to offer something tangible.

After rescuing Liu Qingqing and her junior sisters, Qin Yang learned about Lingzhou’s evil sects and the Evil God’s Blessing before Feng Household forces mistook them for evil cultivators. Qin Yang overwhelmed the attackers and demanded they take their own lives.

• Qin Yang collected the evil cultivators’ heads, spirit stones, and souls while Liu Qingqing offered him a reward and asked to travel together.
• Liu Qingqing told Qin Yang about Lingwu Palace, the Death Spirit Sect, the Black Soul Temple, and the forces drawn to White Bone Ridge’s Evil God’s Blessing.
• A group of Feng Household experts arrived and accused Qin Yang and the Lingwu Palace disciples of being evil cultivators.
• The Feng Household members crushed Liu Qingqing’s identity token and ordered their men to kill everyone.
• Qin Yang unleashed his cultivation aura and sword intent, forced the Feng Household experts to the ground, and ordered them to take their own lives.

Qin Yang uncovered and destroyed a group of Feng Family experts who had been helping evil cultivators plunder resources, while Liu Qingqing hoped to report the truth to the Feng Family head. After Liu Qingqing reunited with Yuan Fang, Yuan Fang distrusted Qin Yang, and Liu Qingqing angrily defended her rescuer.

• A Feng Family expert revealed that Feng Yan secretly profited from the Death Spirit Sect and Black Soul Temple’s raids and had his people eliminate anyone who noticed.
• Qin Yang killed the Feng Family experts and stripped their souls, while Liu Qingqing condemned their corruption.
• Liu Qingqing decided to tell her sect about the scheme, but Qin Yang warned her not to report it to the Feng Family head.
• Liu Qingqing reunited with Yuan Fang and suggested that he travel with her and Qin Yang.
• Yuan Fang accused Qin Yang of being a possible con artist, and Liu Qingqing angrily defended him.

After Qin Yang rescued Liu Qingqing and her companions, Yuan Fang tried to send him away, and Qin Yang accepted a thousand High-grade Spirit Stones before leaving. Liu Qingqing then revealed the Feng Family’s collusion with evil cultivators and persuaded Yuan Fang to report it to the City Lord’s Household, despite their lack of evidence.

• Yuan Fang objected to traveling with Qin Yang, but Liu Qingqing invited Qin Yang to join them; Qin Yang declined and accepted a thousand High-grade Spirit Stones from Yuan Fang.
• Liu Qingqing regretted Qin Yang’s departure and hoped they would meet him again on the airship to Lingzhou.
• Liu Qingqing told Yuan Fang that Feng Family experts had colluded with the Death Spirit Sect and Black Soul Temple to enable attacks on travelers.
• Yuan Fang warned that the City Lord might demand evidence, and the group found no proof among the Feng Family experts’ possessions.
• Liu Qingqing insisted they report Feng Yan’s role to the City Lord’s Household, and Yuan Fang reluctantly agreed with a sense of foreboding.

Qin Yang returned to Wind Spirit City with a fortune in spirit stones and brought dozens of evil cultivators’ heads to the Spirit Market for rewards. There, he watched Lingjian Sect’s Chang Lingshuang and Divine Fist Sect’s Ma Yidao draw attention with their kills, before his own heads caused a commotion.

• Qin Yang returned to Wind Spirit City with more than two thousand High-grade Spirit Stones and many other spirit stones.
• Qin Yang went to the Spirit Market to exchange the heads of the evil cultivators he had killed for rewards.
• Chang Lingshuang and four Lingjian Sect disciples presented fourteen heads, prompting Rogue Cultivators to praise their strength.
• Ma Yidao presented nearly twenty heads, and onlookers compared his record with Chang Lingshuang’s.
• Chang Lingshuang restrained her competitive urge because fighting was forbidden in Wind Spirit City.
• Qin Yang handed over the evil cultivators’ heads he had brought, and a commotion broke out.

Qin Yang stunned the Spirit Market by presenting eighty-seven fresh heads of evil cultivators, insisting that he had killed them alone. As Feng Heng began identifying the notorious dead and preparing payment, the crowd remained shocked, while Qin Yang noticed little and waited for his spirit stones.

• Qin Yang placed eighty-seven evil cultivators’ heads on the Spirit Market counter, stunning Feng Heng and the gathered cultivators.
• The crowd assumed a powerful expert had helped Qin Yang, while Chang Lingshuang studied the uniform wounds and suspected the truth.
• Ma Yidao questioned Qin Yang about his sect and dismissed his claim that he had acted alone, thinking he was putting on an act.
• Qin Yang asked Feng Heng to exchange the heads for spirit stones, and Feng Heng agreed to pay one hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones per head.
• Feng Heng began naming the dead, and the crowd was shocked to learn that Cheng Yuan of the Death Spirit Sect had been killed.

Qin Yang collected twelve thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones for the heads of notorious evil cultivators, shocking everyone at the Spirit Market. Chang Lingshuang believed he might be a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old Core Formation sword cultivator and set out with her junior sisters to befriend him as he headed to buy a flying vessel ticket to Lingzhou.

• Feng Heng paid Qin Yang twelve thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones for the heads, leaving Qin Yang with wealth equivalent to more than three thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Qin Yang left the Spirit Market as hostile cultivators followed him.
• Chang Lingshuang and her junior sisters discussed how an apparently young man could have killed so many notorious evil cultivators.
• Chang Lingshuang concluded Qin Yang was likely telling the truth about acting alone and that his sword intent was unfathomably deep.
• Chang Lingshuang decided to befriend Qin Yang and followed him with her junior sisters.
• Chang Lingshuang saw Qin Yang going to buy a flying vessel ticket to Lingzhou and was delighted by the chance to travel with him.

Qin Yang booked passage to Lingzhou and rejected Chang Lingshuang when she approached him, while she and her junior sisters mistook his indifference for the composure of a hidden expert. He spent the three days before departure cultivating in an inn but stopped just short of advancing to the fourth level of the Core Formation Realm.

• Qin Yang bought a low-level airship berth at the Ascending Heaven Pavilion and learned the airship would depart in three days.
• Chang Lingshuang approached Qin Yang to make his acquaintance, citing the sword intent on the evil cultivators' heads and introducing herself as a Lingjian Sect disciple.
• Qin Yang denied being a sword cultivator and left, surprising Chang Lingshuang's four junior sisters; Chang Lingshuang decided not to rush things.
• Qin Yang rented a cultivation grotto at an inn and absorbed spiritual energy from his Innate Jade Spirit Stone.
• By the third day, Qin Yang had used up the stone's spiritual energy but remained just short of the fourth level of the Core Formation Realm, so he prepared to depart.

Qin Yang boarded the Feng Household’s immense flying ship in Wind Spirit City and set out for Lingzhou, where he planned to confront the Tianyin Sect. During the three-day journey, Chang Lingshuang told him about the sword dao opportunities at Dragon Mountain Sword Pond.

• Qin Yang learned that the Feng Household’s flying ship was a powerful magical treasure that required a Core Formation Realm expert to pilot.
• Qin Yang boarded the ship and watched it depart Wind Spirit City for Lingzhou.
• Qin Yang thought about reaching the Tianyin Sect in time to sever his ties with it and remove its roots.
• Chang Lingshuang asked whether Qin Yang was traveling to Dragon Mountain Sword Pond and explained that her sect planned to assist its elder there.

Qin Yang learned about the sword-path treasures in Dragon Mountain Sword Pond and agreed to travel there with Chang Lingshuang. On the flying boat, Liu Qingqing sought him out and invited him to Lingwu Palace, while Yuan Fang grew jealous and Chang Lingshuang remained cool toward the invitation.

• Chang Lingshuang told Qin Yang that Dragon Mountain Sword Pond held an Ancient Sword Spirit Stone of Profound Grade Low Quality and possibly an Innate Sword Spirit Root of Perfect Quality.
• Qin Yang agreed to accompany Chang Lingshuang and her group to Dragon Mountain Sword Pond to seek the sword-path opportunities.
• Chang Lingshuang and her junior disciples were shocked to learn Qin Yang was a Rogue Cultivator who had advanced beyond the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Liu Qingqing approached Qin Yang to thank him for saving her, while Yuan Fang watched with jealousy and privately criticized her for seeking him out.
• Liu Qingqing defended Qin Yang against Yuan Fang and invited him and Chang Lingshuang to visit Lingwu Palace, but Chang Lingshuang stayed cool because she had already agreed to travel with Qin Yang.

Qin Yang discovered that Feng Xuan and other members of the Household were targeting him and planning to kill Liu Qingqing and Yuan Fang. After overhearing their plans, he pursued them, intending to eliminate them without alerting the Core Formation Realm expert aboard the flying ship.

• Yuan Fang's sarcastic remark angered Liu Qingqing, who left, while Qin Yang sensed Household experts watching him.
• Qin Yang told Chang Lingshuang he would leave and meet her at Dragon Mountain Sword Pond, then followed Liu Qingqing toward the rear of the flying ship.
• Feng Xuan and his companions reached the place where Qin Yang had vanished, and Feng Xuan ordered them to kill Liu Qingqing and Yuan Fang.
• Feng Xuan's Dao Protector and a black-robed figure agreed to help kill the pair, with the black-robed figure asking to keep their corpses for cultivation.
• Qin Yang overheard their plan and decided to pursue Feng Xuan and his group before they could attack Liu Qingqing and Yuan Fang.
• Liu Qingqing stopped at the quiet stern, and Yuan Fang approached her with an obsequious smile.

Feng Xuan confronted Liu Qingqing and Yuan Fang on the Feng Household's flying boat and ordered them killed for exposing his dealings with evil cultivators. Yuan Fang and Liu Qingqing fought back, but the old man's attack left them gravely wounded.

• Yuan Fang apologized to Liu Qingqing, and she told him she did not blame him but feared his words would bring shame upon Lingwu Palace.
• Feng Xuan arrived with two powerful retainers and revealed that he intended to kill Liu Qingqing and Yuan Fang for exposing his actions at the City Lord's Manor.
• Liu Qingqing condemned Feng Xuan for colluding with evil cultivators, while Yuan Fang realized why they had been targeted.
• Yuan Fang charged the old man to protect Liu Qingqing, and she chose to stay and fight beside him.
• The old man struck them with wind blades, nearly cutting Yuan Fang in half and leaving Liu Qingqing with a severe wound near her shoulder and heart.

Wang Ming revealed his overwhelming strength aboard the flying ship, killing the Feng Family’s attackers and rescuing Liu Qingqing and Yuan Fang. He took responsibility for the deaths as they continued their journey toward Lingzhou, knowing the disturbance might draw the attention of a Core Formation powerhouse.

• Wang Ming descended with a powerful aura and killed the old man with Sword Qi.
• Wang Ming recognized Feng Xuan and killed him after Feng Xuan tried to murder him.
• The Death Spirit Sect cultivator escaped the ship, but Wang Ming dragged him back with Sword Qi and killed him.
• Liu Qingqing and Yuan Fang thanked Wang Ming, and Liu Qingqing admitted she should have listened to his warning about the Feng Family.
• Wang Ming told them he would take responsibility for the corpses and the trouble that followed.

Qin Yang captured a Feng Family messenger who invited him to meet Feng Gu, despite Liu Qingqing's warning that the meeting could be a trap. Feng Gu assured Qin Yang that the killing aboard the flying boat would be concealed, and Qin Yang realized that rival branches of the Feng Family were engaged in a struggle for power.

• Liu Qingqing blamed herself for involving Qin Yang in the Feng Family's troubles, but Qin Yang said he would handle what remained.
• Qin Yang seized a young woman in black who approached him, then learned she had been sent by her mistress to invite him to a meeting.
• Liu Qingqing warned Qin Yang that Feng Family members colluding with evil cultivators might be seeking revenge, but Qin Yang decided to go.
• The messenger led Qin Yang to the third level of the flying boat, where he met Feng Gu, son of the Feng Family's Second Elder.
• Feng Gu promised that no one would learn of the recent events or pursue Qin Yang, and Qin Yang inferred that Feng Gu's branch was at odds with the branch connected to Feng Xuan.

Qin Yang refused Feng Qichang’s offer to kill Feng Yan, recognizing it as an attempt to use him in the Feng Family’s internal struggle. After Feng Qichang plotted to pit him against Feng Yan, Qin Yang discovered the Feng Family was spying on him and killed the hidden watchers.

• Feng Gu led Qin Yang to meet Feng Qichang, who praised Qin Yang’s cultivation and asked him to kill Feng Yan in exchange for a generous reward.
• Qin Yang refused to meddle in the Feng Family’s affairs and left the cave abode.
• Feng Qichang grew furious and planned to give Feng Yan information about Qin Yang, hoping they would destroy each other.
• Qin Yang noticed Feng Family experts watching him aboard the flying vessel and decided to strike first.
• Qin Yang appeared behind a hidden Feng Family expert, beheaded him with Sword Qi, and slaughtered the other watchers.

Feng Qichang and Feng Gu planned to let Feng Yan deal with Qin Yang while Qin Yang cultivated aboard the flying vessel and broke through to the fourth level of the Core Formation Realm. After arriving in Dragon Spirit City, Qin Yang learned that Dragon Mountain Sword Pond was an ominous, forbidden place and heard that Lingwu Palace was facing trouble involving evil cultivators.

• Feng Qichang refused Feng Gu's proposal to kill Qin Yang aboard the vessel, deciding instead to tell Feng Yan and let him act.
• Qin Yang returned to his quarters, cultivated with spirit stones, and broke through from the third to the fourth level of the Core Formation Realm.
• The flying vessel arrived at Dragon Spirit City, where Chang Lingshuang told Qin Yang that Dragon Mountain Sword Pond lay within Dragon Spirit Gate's territory and had been abandoned after something ominous emerged there.
• Liu Qingqing invited Qin Yang to visit Lingwu Palace and offered a reward, while Yuan Fang's attitude toward him changed after he saved her life.
• Chang Lingshuang warned Qin Yang that Lingwu Palace was troubled by evil cultivators and that Lingzhou's widespread evil-cultivator forces were difficult to escape once entangled with them.