Chapter Summaries

Xie Yuan entered the Martial Arts Hall and fought Peng Jie, overcoming the poison and Peng Jie’s higher cultivation to kill him. When Vajra Gate’s Instructors attacked him together, Xie Yuan remained standing, leaving the escort agency’s fate in his hands.

• Xie Yuan ignored the escort agency members’ warnings and entered the Martial Arts Hall, where Peng Jie challenged him to fight or concede.
• Xie Yuan took the stage and traded axe blows with Peng Jie, using the Moon-Slayer to turn aside his attacks and drive him toward the edge.
• Xie Yuan and Peng Jie clashed head-on, and Xie Yuan’s strength and endurance allowed him to suppress Peng Jie despite their cultivation gap.
• Peng Jie realized Xie Yuan had not been poisoned and ordered the two remaining Vajra Gate Instructors to join the fight.
• Xie Yuan struck Peng Jie down with a fast, powerful axe blow, while the Instructors’ staffs failed to make him bend.

Mu Chaoyun trapped Deng Wan in the Mountain River Concealment Array, but his golden arcane weapon turned the fight against her. As Deng Wan searched for them, Mu Chaoyun gave Xie Yuan the Eight Trigrams Lotus and stayed behind to hold him off.

• Deng Wan discovered that Mu Chaoyun and Xie Yuan had escaped his rockfall, then followed their trail using his Eyeless Insect.
• Mu Chaoyun and Xie Yuan set up the Mountain River Concealment Array, and Mu Chaoyun drew Deng Wan into it to ambush him.
• Mu Chaoyun used the array to attack Deng Wan from the fog, leaving him unable to locate her or effectively defend himself.
• Deng Wan countered with a golden horsewhip arcane weapon that dispelled the fog nearby and struck Mu Chaoyun twice, worsening her injuries.
• Mu Chaoyun handed Xie Yuan the Eight Trigrams Lotus and told him to escape while she stayed in the array to delay Deng Wan.

Xie Yuan reunited with Situ Qin in the Capital City, where she revealed that she had arranged his invitation to the Hidden Dragon Banquet, and Xie Lingyun objected to their relationship while insisting she would remain by his side. After the three dined at Boss Wu’s Chunjiang Restaurant, Cui Fang confronted Situ Qin, and Xie Yuan stepped forward to fight him as Wang Qiwen and Wang Qishi watched.

• Xie Lingyun confronted Situ Qin over the sugar figurine and declared that she did not agree to their marriage, prompting Situ Qin to take Xie Yuan and Xie Lingyun to Chunjiang Restaurant.
• Xie Yuan reunited with Boss Wu, learned that his name had been cleared, and joined Situ Qin and Xie Lingyun for a meal and conversation.
• Situ Qin and Xie Yuan reconciled, and Situ Qin revealed that she had arranged Xie Yuan’s invitation to the Hidden Dragon Banquet; Xie Lingyun insisted she would stay with him for life.
• Cui Fang insulted Situ Qin and challenged her, so Xie Yuan stepped in and accepted the fight in her place.
• Wang Qishi recognized Xie Yuan from an upstairs window, and Wang Qiwen watched, wondering whether Xie Yuan could match Cui Fang.

Xie Yuan fought Ji Xuan in the skies above North Mountain Village, using their duel to refine his spear techniques before revealing the Red Lotus Karma Fire. Ji Xuan was defeated and mortally wounded, and he asked to see Xie Yuan’s Axe Technique one last time.

• Xie Yuan and Ji Xuan began their duel, with Xie Yuan’s spear driving Ji Xuan high above the village.
• Xie Yuan cycled through several forms of the Heaven Burning World Destroying Spear, using Ji Xuan to practice techniques he had not yet mastered.
• Ji Xuan realized Xie Yuan had been refining his spear technique during the fight and unleashed his full power, while Xie Yuan revealed the Red Lotus Karma Fire.
• Ji Xuan tried to escape by threatening the cemetery and village, but Xie Yuan blocked his attacks and pursued him.
• Xie Yuan used Ji Xuan’s remembered Axe Technique stance to lure him into a fatal strike, piercing him with Dragon Soul and destroying his heart meridians and dantian.
• Ji Xuan admitted defeat and asked to see Xie Yuan’s Axe Technique once more, and Xie Yuan took his axe.

Xie Yuan agreed to act as bait in a plan to draw the Vajra Gate into an ambush, then asserted his authority over the Xu Mo Escort Team and led an escort run. The Vajra Gate spotted the apparent opportunity and prepared to attack him.

• Shen Longteng proposed using Xie Yuan as bait while Zhen Yu secretly supported him, and Xie Yuan agreed to face any Third Level of Practice attackers.
• Xie Yuan gathered the Xu Mo Escort Team, answered a veteran escort's challenge with his merits and battle record, and ordered the team to obey him.
• Xie Yuan promised the team extra Merit Points and pay for the upcoming escort run, then assigned the escorts to prepare.
• Four escort leaders from the Soaring Dragon Escort Agency departed with teams along separate routes, including Xie Yuan.
• Xu Jie and Yu Chunsheng concluded that Xie Yuan's team looked vulnerable, and Yu Chunsheng ordered Xiang Zhuo to lead an attack with help from his hidden contacts.

Xie Yuan and Mu Chaoyun settled into the Yunshan Sword Sect, where they realized Sword Peak’s strange ability to inspire enlightenment came from a Black Heaven Book. As Mu Chaoyun recovered and became an official disciple, she taught Xie Yuan martial techniques while he worked toward finding a way to reach Sword Peak; the chapter ended with her saying her injuries had nearly healed.

• The Sect Master’s sword strike split the clouds above Sword Peak, and Cui Zhi believed the Sect Master had gained new insight.
• Xie Yuan and Mu Chaoyun settled into the outer sect and privately concluded that a Black Heaven Book inside Sword Peak caused its unusual power.
• Xie Yuan decided to remain at the sect and seek a chance to ascend Sword Peak, while Mu Chaoyun offered to teach him to control his meridians.
• Xie Yuan took a menial job in the Firewood Room and planned to distinguish himself so he could work nearer the Main Peak Great Hall.
• Mu Chaoyun passed the entrance examination and became an official disciple, then spent many nights teaching Xie Yuan martial knowledge as she recovered.
• At Waterfall Cliff beneath the full moon, Mu Chaoyun told Xie Yuan that her injuries had almost healed.

Xie Yuan learned that he was a descendant of the Chen Commandery Xie clan, parted from Mu Chaoyun, and returned with Xie Yi to his ancestral home. As the clan began the Blood Drop ceremony to recognize him, the bloods in the jade bowl formed a taiji pattern but refused to merge.

• Xie Yi told Xie Yuan that he was the grandson of Xie Yi’s elder brother, and that a secret message from a Heavenly Secrets expert had led him to Jinling.
• Xie Yuan and Mu Chaoyun parted after exchanging pieces of the Eight Trigrams Lotus, and Xie Yuan left the Heavenly Crystal Lotus with her for her plans against the demon cult.
• Xie Yuan secretly gave Su Xing books containing information on Autumn Wind Pavilion and Yao Family members, prompting Spring Rain Pavilion to launch widespread arrests.
• Xie Yi brought Xie Yuan to the Chen Commandery Xie clan, where he learned he was expected to inherit the family-head branch; Xie Lingyun was devastated to learn Xie Yuan was her cousin rather than her intended match.
• After visiting his parents’ graves and attending a family banquet, Xie Yuan took part in the Blood Drop ceremony, but his blood and Xie Yi’s blood circled each other without merging.

Xie Yuan reconciled with Mu Chaoyun and accepted the Eight Trigrams Lotus before taking Lin Cheng and Lin Zhen to meet Yunshan Sword Sect members at Chunjiang Restaurant. Teacher Cui recognized Xie Yuan’s talent, leaving the siblings’ request to join the sect yet to be considered.

• Xie Yuan told Mu Chaoyun he planned to bring Lin Cheng and Lin Zhen to meet the Yunshan Sword Sect, and she said she would defend herself if they sought revenge.
• Mu Chaoyun questioned whom Xie Yuan would help if the siblings eventually became strong enough to challenge her, and he said he would not let her be bullied.
• Mu Chaoyun handed Xie Yuan the Eight Trigrams Lotus, and their playful exchange brought them closer as he began studying it.
• Two days later, Xie Yuan arrived at Chunjiang Restaurant with Lin Cheng and Lin Zhen to meet Teacher Cui and Zifeng of the Yunshan Sword Sect.
• Teacher Cui praised Xie Yuan as an outstanding talent after sizing him up, while Zifeng also showed surprise at his composure.

Xie Yuan entered the Palm-Sized World, gathered weapons, and defeated He Jin in a duel before discovering that injured contestants were not being sent out. When he recognized that Lady Tian Suan had entered without changing clothes, she revealed herself as a dangerous enemy and confronted him.

• Xie Yuan found a military settlement, took a long blade, and escaped Yang Luo after using the Heaven Illusion Art to fake his death.
• Xie Yuan sensed that someone was watching him, while the Heaven Calculating Master killed Yang Luo and left his equipment behind.
• Xie Yuan watched He Jin claim a longsword at the Mountain God Temple, then defeated him in fewer than ten moves and took the sword.
• Qi reported that Tang remained inside the Palm-Sized World despite being gravely wounded, so Xie Yuan and the others searched for help and lifesaving pills.
• Xie Yuan stopped Pei and Lady Tian Suan, noticed she had not changed clothes, and watched her kill Pei before revealing her face and greeting him.

Xie Yuan, Xie Lingyun, and Wang Qishi evaded the giant ape and reached the Ancient Immortal Sect, where they joined the surviving family experts pursuing the Flame Igniter Envoy. Wang Qishi identified the Seven Stars Illusion Formation, and Xie Yuan entered it to seize its formation eye; the purple phantoms vanished, and the Enchantress angrily recognized him.

• Xie Yuan and the two women climbed the Heavenly Stairway by carefully pulling one another between steps until a gust exposed them and the giant ape attacked; they escaped its reach and reached Floating Mountain.
• Xie Yuan, Xie Lingyun, and Wang Qishi entered the Xuanshou Mountain Beast Controlling Sect and followed a trail of battles and dead family experts to the Scripture Pavilion.
• Wang Qishi reunited with Wang Qiwen, and Xie Yuan learned that the Flame Igniter Envoy had nearly overwhelmed the great families while using the sect's terrain and mechanisms.
• Xie Yuan agreed to help pursue the Enchantress, and the group found her fighting them on the tower's seventh floor through the Seven Stars Illusion Formation.
• Wang Qishi identified the formation and showed Xie Yuan the likely location of its eye; he entered the formation, the purple phantoms disappeared, and the Enchantress shouted that she had encountered the little thief again.

Xie Yuan returned from Yun Province with the ingredients needed to treat Xie Yi, reached the Grandmaster realm, and brought back rare treasures for the Xie Family. After demonstrating the Heaven Burning World Destroying Spear to Xie Fu, he was asked where he had learned the technique.

• Situ Qin welcomed Xie Yuan to her treasury, where Li Tai found soft gold ore that might help repair Xie Yuan's Hundred Transformations Mystic Weapon.
• Xie Yuan and Situ Qin shared a farewell at the lake pavilion before he left for Chen Commandery, reflecting on their feelings and the obstacles to their future together.
• Xie Yuan returned two days later with the Golden Mandala and Newborn Manjusaka, giving Cui Pingjun hope that Xie Yi could be awakened.
• Xie Yuan visited the Martial Repository, where Xie Fu recognized that he had become a Grandmaster and accepted a Jade Gourd Fruit he had brought back.
• Xie Yuan demonstrated the first three forms of the Heaven Burning World Destroying Spear, prompting Xie Fu to ask where he had learned the technique.

Xie Yuan was surrounded by powerful forces from the Royal Family, the Stove Sect, the Western Regions, demons, and ghosts, all seeking the Black Heaven Book and the treasures he carried. As the encircling experts prepared to attack, Xie Yuan killed the Demon Dragon with one strike and challenged the rest to come at him together.

• Xie Yuan sensed an ambush closing in and recognized the Royal Family's Xue Zongtao among the forces surrounding him.
• Ming Wang, the Stove Sect's elders, the Demon Dragon, ghost clan leaders, and Nine Hells Demons confronted Xie Yuan and revealed that old powers had emerged into the human world.
• Wu Daoji urged the gathered experts to seize Xie Yuan's treasures at the Xie Hunt Assembly, while Xie Yuan realized the person behind the trap was still unidentified.
• Xie Yuan drew the Black Heaven Divine Sword and declared that he would kill the Demon Dragon first.
• Xie Yuan transformed into action and split the Demon Dragon in two with a single strike.
• Xie Yuan challenged the stunned gathering to attack him one by one or all together.

Xie Yuan and the Soaring Dragon Escort Agency were ambushed by a band of expert robbers, and he fought alone against their overwhelming numbers. He killed the bandit leader and most of the fighters before the survivors fled into the forest.

• Xie Yuan deflected an arrow as bandits surrounded the escorts, and the bandit leader announced that they intended to rob the Soaring Dragon Escort Agency.
• Xie Yuan charged into the bandits’ formation and killed several Second Level of Practice fighters with his blade while shrugging off weaker attacks.
• Xie Yuan switched to his axe and killed Da Chun Er, the bandit leader, with a single strike.
• Xie Yuan fought off the remaining fighters, killing several more despite suffering wounds to his arm and back.
• The last Second Level of Practice bandit fled, the remaining robbers scattered, and Xie Yuan stood alone on the hillside.

After waking from a three-year coma, Xie Yuan struggled to tell whether his memories of cultivation and another world were real or dreams, while discovering his family was deeply in debt. Boss Wu urged him to revisit where everything began, and Xie Yuan decided to go to Heaven's Gate Mountain.

• Xie Yuan woke in the hospital after three years and found that his cultivation had vanished, leaving him physically weak and uncertain whether his memories were real.
• Xie Yuan learned that his parents were hiding the family's heavy debts and resolved to help them after returning home.
• Xie Yuan tried livestreaming with Wang Yibing, but his poor gaming performance and the intense competition made earning money difficult.
• Xie Yuan noticed that Boss Wu seemed familiar, then later heard him suggest visiting the place where everything began.
• Xie Yuan dreamed of a vast, mist-covered mountain gate and told his parents he wanted to visit Heaven's Gate Mountain.

A mysterious girl with purple eyeshadow drew Xie Yuan and Xie Lingyun to the Chen County Wharf, where she revealed a Great Jade Buddha and challenged Xie Yuan. After Xie Yuan rescued Xie Lingyun and fought the girl to a standstill atop the statue, she fled into the crowd as someone from the Xie Family approached.

• A mysterious girl posing as a Buddha statue peddler recognized Xie Yuan’s faint Buddhist affinity and led him and Xie Lingyun toward the wharf.
• At the slum overlooking Chen County Wharf, Xie Yuan challenged the girl’s claims about the poor and the great clans, and she attacked him.
• The girl raised a gigantic Great Jade Buddha from the earth, captured Xie Lingyun, and threatened to kill her to awaken the people.
• Xie Yuan fought the girl across the Buddha statue, using his weapons, illusions, and movement skills to protect Xie Lingyun and battle her evenly.
• The girl ended the fight, said Xie Yuan had not disappointed her, and vanished into the crowd as Xie Yuan watched a figure from the Xie Family approach.

Xie Yuan followed Xie Lingyun and her companions, repeatedly taking the Blood Qi of beasts they had weakened, while a Qian Family envoy and hidden Demon Cult members advanced a separate plot in Ten Thousand Demons Mountain. When a Demon Cult assassin cornered Xie Lingyun after throwing her companions off a cliff, Xie Yuan appeared behind him and stabbed him through the chest.

• Xie Lingyun and her companions found two dead beasts and human remains, and Xie Yuan secretly followed them after they collected the beasts’ valuables.
• Xie Yuan repeatedly took the Blood Qi from beasts the Xie Family members had weakened, provoking Xie Lingyun while denying that he had killed the Yao brothers.
• A barefoot woman in purple from the Qian Family defeated a powerful Tiger Demon, found a clue in a cave, and performed a dance on its altar as the mountain resonated.
• Demon Cult members disguised as Qian Family disciples revealed their Third Transformation Realm strength and began attacking noble-family hunters.
• A Demon Cult assassin ambushed Xie Lingyun’s group, sending Xie Lingying and Xie Yu over a cliff before confronting Xie Lingyun.
• As Xie Lingyun prepared to sacrifice herself rather than be captured, Xie Yuan emerged behind the assassin and stabbed him through the chest.

Xie Yuan killed the Third Leader and turned the battle against the bandits, then joined Zhao Xingyang and the escort team to defeat Boss Song. The bandit chief died under their combined attack, ending his threat to Xie Yuan and the others.

• Xie Yuan killed the Third Leader with his Three-Pronged Axe, breaking the bandits’ morale and allowing the escort team to push forward.
• Zhao Xingyang stopped Boss Song from reaching the battlefield and continued fighting him while Xie Yuan cut through the fleeing bandits.
• Xie Yuan and the surviving escorts regrouped and surrounded Boss Song as the remaining bandits scattered.
• Boss Song charged at Xie Yuan, but Zhao Xingyang and Xie Yuan attacked him together, piercing his chest and breaking his defense.
• The escort team struck Boss Song with a storm of blades, killing the bandit chief.

Xie Yuan helped Yun Xing defeat her rivals on Holy Mountain, then rejected BeiTang Yue’s offer to abandon her and fought BeiTang Chong. As BeiTang Chong began to lose, Lei Xianlun prepared to join the battle, and Xie Yuan challenged them to attack together.

• Xie Yuan broke through Li Yun’s flowing-sleeve trap and killed her with the Heaven Burning World Destroying Spear.
• Xie Yuan joined Yun Xing’s fight against Mo Li and her companion, killing the companion while Yun Xing defeated Mo Li.
• Xie Yuan and Yun Xing faced BeiTang Yue, BeiTang Chong, and Lei Xianlun, and Xie Yuan refused BeiTang Yue’s offer to withdraw.
• BeiTang Chong fought Xie Yuan, but Xie Yuan read his swordsmanship and steadily gained the advantage.
• BeiTang Yue asked Lei Xianlun to help BeiTang Chong, and Xie Yuan intercepted Lei Xianlun and challenged both men to fight him together.

Mu Chaoyun revealed the truth behind the Eight Gates Rebellion and explained Situ Qin’s powerful family history. She then told Xie Yuan that an unknown attacker had destroyed the Mu Family to obtain the Black Heaven Book, and she planned to seek revenge once her injuries healed.

• Mu Chaoyun explained that the Prince of Western Peace’s execution had been forced by the Eight Great Families, and that Situ Qin’s mother, the Stove Sect’s Holy Maiden, had retaliated against them before disappearing.
• Mu Chaoyun described how Li Tai, the Flying General, had withdrawn from the court to guard Situ Qin after Xue Minghe’s death.
• Xie Yuan asked Mu Chaoyun about her family, and she revealed that an unknown stranger had killed her father, eldest uncle, and the rest of the Mu Family while seeking the Black Heaven Book.
• Mu Chaoyun said her relatives had bought her time to escape with the Black Heaven Book and that she had survived by breaking through to grandmaster.
• Xie Yuan quietly kept Mu Chaoyun company as she grieved, and she said she would investigate and take revenge after recovering from her injuries.

Xie Yuan confronted One Blade Martial Hall after it occupied the Soaring Dragon Escort Agency’s residence, then killed Chen Su with a single slash when Chen Su refused to leave. With the hall master dead, the agency’s occupants rushed to gather their belongings while Xie Yuan gave them time to evacuate.

• Chen Su mocked Xie Yuan’s threat and insisted that One Blade Martial Hall would keep the escort agency’s residence.
• Qin Hai and the escort agency’s old hands arrived and tried to calm the confrontation, but Chen Su rejected their pleas and threatened Xie Yuan.
• Xie Yuan clarified that his warning was for everyone else to leave and that Chen Su was certain to die.
• Chen Su challenged Xie Yuan to draw his weapon, and Xie Yuan beheaded him with a single Wolf Assault.
• One Blade Martial Hall’s disciples fled, while Xie Yuan gave the agency’s occupants half an incense stick to pack and leave.
• Wang Chengpeng hurried away, and Xie Yuan killed two disciples who charged at him to avenge Chen Su.