Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xiao and Little Cai defeated Ao Youdi after he challenged her to a fight and spoke disrespectfully about her marriage to Ye Huan Kong. After treating his injuries, Ao Youdi decided to target Monk Huaizhong and set off to challenge him.

• Ao Youdi challenged Xiao Xiao, but her attacks could not overcome his powerful body and armor.
• Xiao Xiao let Little Cai fight, and the python grew to Heavenly Sovereign level before striking Ao Youdi into a crater and burning him into submission.
• Xiao Xiao left after Little Cai spared Ao Youdi, and he treated his wounds and replaced his damaged armor.
• Ao Youdi realized Ye Huan Kong was among the people his father had warned him not to provoke and consulted the booklet King Ye’s Sayings for advice.
• Ao Youdi decided to take Monk Huaizhong’s sword marks and flew off, loudly calling him out to fight.

After reaching Half-step Great Perfection Earth Sovereign, Ye Kong fought and defeated Demon Swordsman Feng Jie, taking three of his sword marks while leaving him one. The battle was interrupted by a clash between Monk Huaizhong, Ao Youdi, and Innate Spirit Sword Su Changxin, whose powerful auras shook the land.

• Ye Kong emerged from the azure lake after breaking through to Half-step Great Perfection Earth Sovereign and was attacked by Feng Jie.
• Feng Jie challenged Ye Kong, offering his four sword marks if he lost and risking his own path if he won.
• Ye Kong and Feng Jie traded powerful sword techniques before Feng Jie unleashed his Peerless Divine Ability and Demon Sword Chaos God Body.
• Ye Kong used the Immortal Sky Curtain to suppress Feng Jie's attack and defeat him.
• Ye Kong took three of Feng Jie's sword marks, left him one, and sent healing spiritual energy to protect him.
• The land shook as Ye Kong and Feng Jie sensed Monk Huaizhong, Ao Youdi, and Su Changxin fighting in the distance.

Ye Kong and Feng Jie watched Su Changxin fight Monk Huaizhong and Ao Youdi while discussing her relationship with Xu Lingyun. After Feng Jie explained how Xu Lingyun had rescued Su Changxin and become her older-brother figure, Ye Kong noticed Xiao Xiao listening from the void and called her down.

• Ye Kong and Feng Jie watched Su Changxin hold her own against Monk Huaizhong and Ao Youdi with her Three Thousand Flower Realms.
• Feng Jie told Ye Kong that Su Changxin and Xu Lingyun were regarded as a couple, though their relationship was complicated.
• Feng Jie recounted how Xu Lingyun rescued Su Changxin on her first training expedition and spent three months traveling with her before leaving in frustration.
• Feng Jie explained that Su Changxin later found Xu Lingyun again, became his acknowledged little sister, and continued to love him while he regarded her as a child.
• Ye Kong gave Feng Jie a Millennium Great Peach and called Xiao Xiao down after noticing her listening from the void.

Ye Kong absorbed the Buddhist light from the Evil Tribe King’s corpse but did not reach Great Perfection Earth Sovereign, then headed to watch Su Changxin fight Ao Youdi and Monk Huaizhong. As the battle intensified, Xu Lingyun revealed his ambition to forge a new path beyond Saint Grade for sword cultivators.

• Xiao Xiao gave Ye Kong the headless corpse of an Evil Tribe King, and Ye Kong absorbed it into the Merit Bowl to cultivate.
• Ye Kong strengthened his cultivation but did not break through, then set off with Xiao Xiao and Feng Jie to watch the battle.
• Su Changxin unleashed Green Lotus Execution against Ao Youdi and Monk Huaizhong, forcing them to defend themselves with their strongest methods.
• Monk Huaizhong formed his Immortal Golden Body and used Immortal Golden Lotus to shield himself and Ao Youdi from Su Changxin’s attack.
• Xu Lingyun told Ouyang Heng that he planned to merge the thirty-three sword intents he had gained and use immense pressure to forge his own path beyond Saint Grade.

Ye Kong encountered Xu Lingyun and accepted his challenge, though they agreed to fight after Su Changxin’s battle. When Ao Youdi begged Ye Kong for help by invoking a true dragon Ye Kong had once saved, Ye Kong recognized the connection and stopped Su Changxin from attacking him.

• Xu Lingyun praised Ye Kong’s ambitions, and Ye Kong challenged him to a fight that they agreed to postpone until Su Changxin’s battle ended.
• Feng Jie revealed that Ye Kong had injured him before reaching his current cultivation, prompting Xu Lingyun and Ouyang Heng to take Ye Kong’s strength seriously.
• Xu Lingyun explained that Ao Youdi had interrupted Su Changxin and Monk Huaizhong’s planned duel, then joined Huaizhong against her.
• Su Changxin overwhelmed Ao Youdi and Huaizhong, leaving Ao Youdi badly wounded as he fled and called to Ye Kong for help.
• Ao Youdi said his great-uncle ancestor had told him to greet Ye Kong, and Ye Kong realized the elder was the true dragon remnant soul he had saved in the Burial Spirit Ruins.
• Ye Kong healed Ao Youdi and asked Su Changxin to spare him, promising to have him apologize later.

Ye Kong battered Monk Huaizhong to break the shackle on his cultivation, and Huaizhong’s body exploded as he approached the Heavenly Sovereign Realm. Two hours later, Huaizhong rebuilt his body from his Buddha Bone, and the Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation began to gather above him during the Contest for Son of the Continent.

• Su Changxin spared Ao Youdi after Ye Kong intervened, leaving Ao Youdi severely injured by the dragon horn’s backlash and her attack.
• Monk Huaizhong told Ye Kong that the Ancient Buddha Dharma Bone’s pressure had kept him from breaking through, and Ye Kong offered to help him cross the final barrier.
• Ye Kong relentlessly struck Monk Huaizhong until the shackle on his cultivation broke and his body burst apart, leaving only his Buddha Bone.
• After two hours, Monk Huaizhong’s Divine Soul consciousness rebuilt his body from particles of flesh around the Buddha Bone.
• Pitch-black clouds gathered above Monk Huaizhong as the Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation began to form.

Ye Kong helped Huai Zhong undergo a Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation, but the World Will added a surprise strike that hit Ye Kong as well. After recovering and breaking through to Great Perfection Earth Sovereign, Ye Kong watched Huai Zhong complete his transformation and receive the Ancient Buddha Dharma Bone’s full power.

• Ye Kong fled Huai Zhong’s tribulation, then thanked the World Will on Huai Zhong’s behalf, prompting Huai Zhong to brace himself with his Immortal Golden Body and Purple-Gold Barrier.
• Huai Zhong endured four increasingly dangerous Heavenly Sovereign Tribulations, but the remaining clouds split into two vortices and struck both him and Ye Kong.
• Ye Kong learned the World Will had added an extra test for Huai Zhong and made him share the burden; Xiao Xiao, Xu Lingyun, Xiao Yan, and Feng Yusheng rushed to his aid.
• Xiao Yan gave Ye Kong a Great Replenishing Pill, and after half an hour Ye Kong absorbed its power and broke through to Great Perfection Earth Sovereign.
• Huai Zhong completed his transformation, fully merged with the Ancient Buddha Dharma Bone, and knelt to thank Ye Kong for remaking him.

Monk Huaizhong thanked Ye Kong for helping him break through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm, and the Green-robed Sword Saint awarded the five Son of the Continent slots to Ye Kong, Xu Lingyun, Su Changxin, Ouyang Heng, and Xiao Xiao. After the others settled their rankings, Ye Kong and Xu Lingyun began a battle that spectators expected to be recorded in Sword Domain history.

• Monk Huaizhong thanked Ye Kong for helping him survive the Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation and reach the Heavenly Sovereign realm.
• Xiao Yan advised Huaizhong to refine his Eight Spirit Meridians, and Huaizhong carried the wounded Ao Youdi away from the battlefield.
• The Green-robed Sword Saint awarded the five Son of the Continent slots to Xu Lingyun, Su Changxin, Ouyang Heng, King Ye, and Xiao Xiao after the remaining Half-step Heavenly Sovereigns conceded.
• Ouyang Heng accepted fifth place, while Su Changxin and Xiao Xiao agreed to share third place.
• Xu Lingyun summoned his sword and unleashed his star-river sword intent, and Ye Kong answered with the Burying Buddha Tablet and his Perfect Heart Demon State.

Xu Lingyun began his duel with Ye Kong by unleashing his Stars Shift, Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique and revealing his plan to refine the sword intent of thirty-three Heavenly Sovereigns. Ye Kong recognized the danger and ambition of Xu Lingyun’s path as the spectators hoped he could take the next step.

• The Green-robed Sword Saint reinforced his small world so it could withstand Xu Lingyun and Ye Kong’s battle.
• Xu Lingyun and Ye Kong faced off, and their clashing sword intent shattered mountains despite the strengthened world.
• Xu Lingyun attacked with the Stars Shift, Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique, multiplying its power into a vast array of Azure Light Divine Swords.
• Xu Lingyun summoned four of the Thirty-Three Stars, and Ye Kong realized he was using traces of Heavenly Sovereigns’ sword intent to forge a path beyond the Saint Grade.
• Ye Kong understood that Xu Lingyun had placed thirty-three shackles upon himself and risked death to pursue his ambition.
• The Green-robed Sword Saint explained Xu Lingyun’s resolve to Xiao Yan and Feng Yusheng, who praised his potential and looked forward to his rise.

Ye Kong fought Xu Lingyun, breaking the Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique with his mastery of space and the Burying Buddha Tablet. After destroying Xu Lingyun’s sword storm and sending him flying, Ye Kong claimed the round, but Xu Lingyun remained eager to continue.

• Ye Kong drew on the Burying Buddha Tablet, the Four Divine Beast Manifestations, and his Buddhist power to face Xu Lingyun’s Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique.
• Xu Lingyun unleashed an ocean of Azure Light Divine Swords, while Ye Kong sealed the surrounding space and charged into the attack with his blood sword.
• Ye Kong used Myriad Buddhas Illuminate the Universe to hold Xu Lingyun and the four Heavenly Sovereign sword phantoms back as he cut down the Azure Light Divine Swords.
• Ye Kong destroyed Xu Lingyun’s sword storm, then charged in and blasted Xu Lingyun backward before declaring that he had won the round.
• Xu Lingyun laughed and promised to let Ye Kong fight to his heart’s content, signaling that their battle would continue.

Ye Kong and Xu Lingyun fought an escalating sword battle, unleashing their strongest abilities until they had exchanged more than three thousand moves and devastated the Green-robed Sword Saint’s world. The fight reached its decisive stage when both summoned their Supreme Dharma Bodies.

• Xu Lingyun revealed the Heavenly Cycle Sword and used the Stars Shift technique to gather the power of twelve stars, while Ye Kong attacked with the Burying Buddha Tablet.
• Ye Kong awakened the residual will of Blood Buddha, fully unsealed the Burying Buddha Tablet, and clashed with Xu Lingyun in an evenly matched battle.
• Xiao Yan, the Green-robed Sword Saint, Feng Yusheng, and Xiao Xiao watched as the duel ranged across the sky and ground; Feng Yusheng noted that Ye Kong was fighting Xu Lingyun despite being nearly two realms behind.
• Xu Lingyun and Ye Kong unleashed further techniques, including the power of twenty-four sword-intent stars and Ye Kong’s True Phoenix Sacred Flame, while their battle wrecked the surrounding landscape and airspace.
• After more than three thousand exchanges, Ye Kong summoned his Immortal Golden Body and Xu Lingyun manifested the Azure Sword Profound Body, bringing the duel to its decisive stage.

Ye Kong and Xu Lingyun agreed to continue their evenly matched duel so Xu could use the pressure to forge a new sword path, despite the risk of death. The chapter ended as Xu activated his Azure Sword Profound Body and prepared his next attack.

• Xu Lingyun said his Azure Sword Profound Body gave him a slight edge, but he recognized that their duel had already pushed him to grow.
• Ye Kong warned Xu Lingyun that activating the remaining nine sword stars could make his body collapse and kill him.
• Xu Lingyun explained how he had forged the Thirty-Three Stars and declared that he wanted to open a new path, asking Ye Kong not to hold back.
• Ye Kong agreed to fight Xu Lingyun for two more moves and shared his wish to bring warmth and peace to the Great Thousand World.
• Xu Lingyun saluted Ye Kong, then activated his Azure Sword Profound Body as immense cyan sword qi gathered overhead.

Ye Kong and Xu Lingyun exhausted their lives in a final clash between Buddhist and sword techniques, leaving their companions believing both had died. Ye Kong was reborn from a cocoon through the Immortal Life-Death Transformation and emerged as Ye Huan Kong.

• Xu Lingyun and Ye Kong unleashed their ultimate attacks, combining the Thirty-Three Sword Intent Stars and the Burying Buddha Tablet with seven thousand Golden War Buddhas.
• The Heavenly Cycle Sword and Ye Kong’s golden swastika seal shattered, and the witnesses feared both fighters had perished.
• A purple-gold speck bearing Ye Kong’s aura appeared and grew into a cocoon that consumed spiritual power.
• Feng Yusheng and Monk Huaizhong poured spiritual power into the cocoon while Xiao Yan recognized Ye Kong’s Immortal Life-Death Transformation.
• The cocoon burst open, and Ye Kong stepped out alive, introducing himself as Ye Huan Kong.

Ye Kong recovered after his battle with Xu Lingyun, and the Green-robed Sword Saint took the group to the Sword Domain’s Continental Power core to help Xu Lingyun recover. Before they could begin their baptism, Ye Kong learned that his disciples on Tianluo Continent were in trouble and led a group of powerful allies there.

• Ye Kong emerged restored and stronger, while Xiao Yan, Feng Yusheng, and Xiao Xiao warned him against repeatedly risking his life.
• The Green-robed Sword Saint sensed that Xu Lingyun was still alive but too weak to withstand his spiritual energy, so he brought everyone to the Sword Domain’s Continental Power core.
• The Green-robed Sword Saint explained the core’s Continental Power and asked Su Changxin to help gather energy for Xu Lingyun.
• Ye Kong’s jade pendant activated a Space Projection Array after his disciples on Tianluo Continent used their distress items to summon him.
• Monk Huaizhong, Ao Youdi, Xiao Xiao, and Ouyang Heng joined Ye Kong as the array carried them to Tianluo Continent.

Mu Chen watched Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni battle the Ten Thousand Poisonous Snake Venerable, then discussed their backgrounds and the Dragon-Phoenix inheritances with Mandala. As he resolved to keep pursuing Ye Kong, Wen Qingxuan produced a golden jade pendant and challenged the Snake Venerable’s reliance on his clan’s backing.

• Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni revealed their Ninth-grade Venerate cultivation and fought the Ten Thousand Poisonous Snake Venerable after he came to avenge Chi Xue and seize them.
• Mu Chen told Mandala how he had met the women in Dragon-Phoenix Heaven and traded the Dragon-Phoenix True Scripture inheritance for the True Dragon Fist inheritance.
• Mandala explained that the women likely came from powerful Super Powers and that Dragon-Phoenix Heaven’s true dragon and true phoenix inheritances were worth seeking.
• Mu Chen thought of Ye Kong as the target he wanted to catch up to and vowed that he would never admit defeat, while also remembering his promises to Luo Li and his father.
• The Ten Thousand Poisonous Snake Venerable invoked his Crimson Blood Divine Snake Clan’s Heavenly Sovereign ancestor, but Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni stood their ground.
• Wen Qingxuan drew a golden jade pendant that released spatial ripples as she challenged the Snake Venerable to consider that they had formidable elders too.

When the Ten Thousand Poisonous Snake Venerable threatened Yan Ni and Wen Qingxuan, they summoned help, and Ao Youdi crippled him before Monk Huaizhong and Ye Kong arrived. Ye Kong confronted the gathered powers over his disciples’ mistreatment, drawing the attention of factions across the Tianluo Continent, while Mu Chen wondered if Ye Kong could be a Heavenly Sovereign.

• The Ten Thousand Poisonous Snake Venerable threatened Yan Ni and Wen Qingxuan with the Crimson Blood Divine Python Clan, so Wen Qingxuan shattered a jade pendant to summon help.
• Ao Youdi emerged from the spatial array, identified the Ten Thousand Poisonous Snake Venerable as the culprit, and severed his body before smashing him into a crater.
• Monk Huaizhong appeared and greeted Yan Ni and Wen Qingxuan as his little Martial Granduncles, while Ao Youdi introduced himself as a member of the True Dragon Clan and said he knew their master, King Ye.
• Ye Kong arrived with two companions and demanded an explanation for his disciples being bullied, releasing pressure that drew powerful experts and major factions toward Dragon-Phoenix Heaven.
• Mu Chen recognized Ye Kong from the North Cang Spiritual Institute and wondered whether he was a Heavenly Sovereign.

Ye Kong punished the Ten Thousand Poisonous Snake Venerable for targeting his disciples and granted the Snake God Hall’s territory to Mandala and Liu Tiandao. He then exposed the Northern Border’s hidden observers and confronted three Half-step Heavenly Sovereigns from the Northern Domain.

• Mandala and Liu Tiandao blamed the Ten Thousand Poisonous Snake Venerable for his crimes and offered to deal with him, but Ye Kong claimed the Snake God Hall for them and chose to punish its master himself.
• Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni told Ye Kong how the Ten Thousand Poisonous Snake Venerable had attacked them and accused him of harming countless women.
• Ye Kong crippled the Ten Thousand Poisonous Snake Venerable, Xiao Xiao’s nine-colored snakes devoured him, and Ye Kong burned away what remained.
• Ye Kong summoned the four hidden Lower Earth Sovereigns of the Northern Border, who revealed themselves and paid their respects.
• Ye Kong sensed three more figures hiding in the void and forced True Lord Ziyun, Venerable Thunder Sound, and the Golden Roc Emperor to appear.

Ye Kong confronted Tianluo Continent’s three overlords and the hidden experts from their backing Super Powers, warning them not to mistreat his disciples when they trained there. The gathered powers promised to comply, while Mu Chen watched Ye Kong’s authority with awe and longed to become strong enough to protect his mother and Luo Li.

• Venerable Thunder Sound, True Lord Ziyun, and the Golden Roc Emperor greeted Ye Kong and offered to help, while Ye Kong said he had no interest in claiming their territory.
• Ye Kong swept more than a dozen Half-step Heavenly Sovereigns and dozens of Great Perfection Earth Sovereigns out of hiding near Dragon-Phoenix Heaven.
• Ye Kong warned the assembled experts not to let future incidents target his disciples, and Monk Huaizhong, Ao Youdi, Ouyang Heng, and Xiao Xiao watched in support.
• The Tianluo Continent experts pledged to restrain their disciples and protect Yan Ni and Wen Qingxuan while the two women smiled at Ye Kong.
• Mu Chen watched the gathered experts submit to Ye Kong and yearned for the power to rescue his mother and protect Luo Li.

Ye Kong had his companions demonstrate their strength and connections to protect Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni from local powers on Tianluo Continent. After the summoned Heavenly Sovereigns recognized Ye Kong and paid their respects, they joined the Dragon Tribe, Great Spiritual Mountain, Sword Domain, and Endless Fire Domain in warning that anyone who troubled his disciples would face them all.

• Ao Youdi announced his Half-step Heavenly Sovereign strength and invoked the Dragon Tribe’s powerful elders to intimidate Tianluo Continent’s experts.
• Ao Youdi pressured the local powers to summon their Heavenly Sovereign ancestors, and eight spiritual projections descended.
• Old Ancestor Danyang recognized Ye Huan Kong as King Ye, apologized for his earlier arrogance, and the other summoned Heavenly Sovereigns also became respectful.
• Ao Youdi, Huaizhong, Ouyang Heng, and Xiao Xiao declared that their factions would defend Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni.
• The eight Heavenly Sovereigns joined the others in warning that anyone who troubled King Ye or his disciples would make enemies of them.

After the Tianluo Continent experts learned of Ye Kong’s reputation, they hurried away, and Xiao Xiao offered to help him change the Great Thousand World’s unjust order. Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni presented their Dragon-Phoenix inheritances, and Ye Kong reunited with Mu Chen after two years apart.

• Venerable Thunder Sound and the other Half-step Heavenly Sovereigns apologized for not recognizing Ye Kong, then left after he dismissed them.
• Xiao Xiao explained that the experts feared Ye Kong because he had slain many Heavenly Demon Emperors, and she promised that she and her father would help him restrain those who abused their power.
• Wen Qingxuan and Yan Ni gave Ye Kong three Dragon-Phoenix inheritances: a True Dragon Fist Divine Ability, the True Phoenix Incarnation Method, and the Dragon-Phoenix True Scripture.
• Wen Qingxuan revealed that she and Yan Ni had found Mu Chen as a collaborator while searching for Dragon-Phoenix Fruits, and that he owed Ye Kong Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Ye Kong greeted Mu Chen, who approached him and reflected on how much Ye Kong’s cultivation and standing had changed since they parted at North Cang Spiritual Institute.