Chapter Summaries

Dean Gong joined Zhou Ling on the journey to the Sword Qi Great Wall, where Zhou Ling’s ranking provoked Tao Yue and Du Huan into challenging him. Zhou Ling accepted Du Huan’s challenge with a wager of military merits, and the group headed to the fighting arena.

• Dean Gong told Zhou Ling she had arranged for Chief Commander Gu to take over her duties and would accompany him to the Sword Qi Great Wall for training and a Dao Academy mission.
• Zhou Ling and Dean Gong arrived at Tianxia Immortal City, where Hu Yu received them and Qi Jian Zhi greeted Zhou Ling, introducing him to Tao Yue, Pei Qing Shuang, Feng Lan, and Du Huan.
• Tao Yue questioned Zhou Ling’s first-place ranking, and Du Huan challenged him to a match after Zhou Ling declined to claim credit for slaying a Fifth-Tier Demon King.
• Zhou Ling agreed to fight Du Huan for one thousand military merits, while Qi Jian Zhi and Tao Yue also wagered five hundred merits each.
• Qi Jian Zhi led Zhou Ling, Dean Gong, and the others toward the fighting platform.

Zhou Ling fought Du Huan on the fighting platform after Du Huan challenged his place at the top of the Heavenly Pride Ranking. Zhou Ling crushed Du Huan’s Frost Sword Domain with his Purple Heavens Emperor Manifestation, shocking the gathered Heavenly Prides and confirming that his ranking reflected his true strength.

• Cultivators gathered to watch Zhou Ling, ranked first, fight Du Huan, ranked tenth, over doubts about how Zhou Ling had earned his place on the Heavenly Pride Ranking.
• Qi Jian Zhi urged Zhou Ling and Du Huan to stop before either was injured, but both rejected the suggestion.
• Du Huan unleashed his Frost Sword and Frost Sword Domain, while Zhou Ling warned that Du Huan would not get a chance to attack.
• Zhou Ling summoned the Purple Heavens Emperor Manifestation and shattered Du Huan’s Sword Domain with one blow, sending Du Huan crashing onto the platform.
• The crowd and the other Heavenly Prides recognized Zhou Ling’s overwhelming strength, while Tao Yue looked grim and Yan Yu Tian welcomed him as a worthy opponent.
• Qi Jian Zhi congratulated Zhou Ling and promised to help recover his thousand military merits.

Zhou Ling accepted Tao Yue’s challenge for fifteen hundred military merits, then defeated him by piercing through his Water Curtain Ripple Array with the Five Elements Sword Sun. He demanded the wager from Tao Yue after knocking him off the platform.

• Tao Yue challenged Zhou Ling to a rematch and wagered fifteen hundred military merits, while Qi Jian Zhi warned Zhou Ling that Tao Yue was a powerful Formation Master.
• Zhou Ling accepted Tao Yue’s challenge and also offered to fight Feng Lan afterward, drawing the crowd’s attention back to the sparring platform.
• Tao Yue activated his Fourth-Tier Mid-Grade Water Curtain Ripple Array before the match began, confident it would withstand Zhou Ling’s attacks.
• Zhou Ling used the Five Elements Sword Sun to identify and strike the array’s weak points, breaking through its defenses without summoning his Purple Firmament Emperor Manifestation.
• Zhou Ling’s five swords shattered the array and swept Tao Yue off the platform, after which Zhou Ling demanded the fifteen hundred military merits.

Zhou Ling defeated Tao Yue, collected military merits, and learned the rules for the Sword Qi Great Wall trial. The thirty Heavenly Pride Ranking cultivators split into two teams, with Zhou Ling joining Chen Zhanglei’s smaller team and Liu Zheng Jia leading the larger one.

• Zhou Ling broke Tao Yue’s array, accepted Tao Yue’s two thousand military merits, and refused Feng Lan’s offer to fight another day.
• Qi Jian Zhi gave Zhou Ling Du Huan’s one thousand military merits, and Zhou Ling, Qi Jian Zhi, and Dean Gong went to register for the trial.
• Chen Zhanglei and Liu Zheng Jia arrived to lead the expedition and explained that the trial’s points would depend on the foreign races each cultivator killed.
• Chen Zhanglei divided the thirty trial participants into two teams, and eighteen—including Yan Yu Tian, Feng Lan, and Tao Yue—chose Liu Zheng Jia’s team while Zhou Ling and Qi Jian Zhi joined Chen Zhanglei.
• After Chen Zhanglei told the teams to prepare for their departure in three days, Qi Jian Zhi invited Zhou Ling and Dean Gong to dine with him and his uncle-in-law.

Zhou Ling met Chen Zhanglei and learned that the Sword Qi Great Wall was fighting the Star Sea Foreign Race, whose strange cultivation and rule-based abilities made them formidable opponents. Chen Zhanglei revealed that two of the Great Wall’s ten cities had fallen and implied that Qi Jian Zhi should stay with Zhou Ling during the dangerous campaign.

• Zhou Ling, Dean Gong, and Qi Jian Zhi joined Chen Zhanglei at Four Seasons Tower, where Qi Jian Zhi served them Fourth Order Water Cloud Brew.
• Chen Zhanglei gave Zhou Ling a Fourth-Grade top-grade Thunder Stone, and Zhou Ling repaid him the thirteen hundred military merits it had cost.
• Zhou Ling drank the Water Cloud Brew and accepted Qi Jian Zhi’s offer to send him two jars for his master.
• Chen Zhanglei showed the group an image of the Star Sea Foreign Race and explained that its members cultivated Star Sea power and wielded strange abilities involving multiple rules.
• Chen Zhanglei revealed that the Star Sea Foreign Race had captured two of the Sword Qi Great Wall’s ten cities, isolating the others and prompting the Dao Alliance to prepare to retake them.
• Chen Zhanglei advised Qi Jian Zhi to follow Zhou Ling for safety, and Qi Jian Zhi agreed to stay with him at the Great Wall.

Zhou Ling began the trial journey to the Sword Qi Great Wall with Qi Jian Zhi and Bu Yang, wagering military merits and Fourth Order Magic Arrays against Tao Yue and Yan Yu Tian's teams. Two days later, Zhou Ling drove off a massive Blood Thunder Crow Flock, leaving Qi Jian Zhi amazed as their pursuit continued.

• Chen Zhanglei announced that the trial had begun and set a reward for the first team to reach the Sword Qi Great Wall.
• Zhou Ling, Qi Jian Zhi, and Bu Yang departed together, and Zhou Ling accepted Tao Yue's wager for a Fourth Order Thunder Fire Array.
• Yan Yu Tian joined the contest, raising the stakes to three thousand military merits and two Fourth Order Magic Arrays against Zhou Ling's three thousand military merits.
• Qi Jian Zhi gave Zhou Ling three jars of Fourth Order Spirit Wine, and the group agreed to take turns piloting, keeping watch, and resting.
• A Blood Thunder Crow Flock pursued their warship, so Zhou Ling faced the flock alone and caused it to flee before chasing after it.

Zhou Ling subdued the Blood Thunder Crow Flock and surged into first place in the trial, prompting his rivals to hunt Fourth Order Demon Beasts to catch up. As his team continued toward the Sword Qi Great Wall, Zhou Ling efficiently hunted more beasts, unaware that his points had driven the other competitors to take greater risks.

• Zhou Ling charged into the Blood Thunder Crow Flock, endured its lightning attacks, and subdued several hundred crows, including two Fourth Order Crow Kings.
• Qi Jian Zhi saw Zhou Ling's points reach 4,300, far ahead of Yan Yu Tian and Feng Lan, while Zhou Ling focused on earning military merit and continued hunting Demon Beasts.
• After learning Zhou Ling had taken the lead, Feng Lan urged Tao Yue to pursue Fourth Order Demon Beasts, and Yan Yu Tian also decided to seek them out.
• Chen Zhanglei defended Zhou Ling's strength when Liu Zheng Jia suggested sending him on a dangerous scouting mission at the Sword Qi Great Wall.
• Zhou Ling and his Blood Thunder Crows continued slaughtering or subduing Demon Beasts, filling nearly half his Storage Ring with corpses.

Zhou Ling and his companions reached Dragon Sword Immortal City first, and Zhou Ling secured first place in the trial with 6,300 points, far ahead of the other contestants. After collecting his wagers and learning that two Sword Qi Great Wall cities remained under attack, he received the team’s reward as the cultivators prepared for what came next.

• Zhou Ling, Qi Jian Zhi, and Bu Yang arrived first at Dragon Sword Immortal City, where Wen Xingyuan inspected them and explained the city’s defenses and the ongoing fighting at Sunday Immortal City and Monday Immortal City.
• Yan Yu Tian arrived and paid Zhou Ling the fifteen hundred military merits they had wagered on the trial.
• Tao Yue handed Zhou Ling two Fourth Order Magic Arrays, while Feng Lan declined Zhou Ling’s offer to wager again.
• Wen Xingyuan inspected the arriving teams and led the contestants into the inner city once everyone had arrived.
• Chen Zhanglei announced Zhou Ling’s first-place score of 6,300 points, earned by killing three Fourth Order and three Third-Tier Demon Beasts.
• Qi Jian Zhi celebrated the team’s reward of one thousand military merits each and planned to give Zhou Ling more Spirit Wine.

Zhou Ling chose the dangerous Sunday Immortal City for the second trial, where the teams would hunt Star Sea Foreign Race strongholds, and Feng Lan’s group chose it as well. Before setting out, Zhou Ling prepared his warship with defensive arrays and supplies, ending the chapter relaxing aboard it with Qi Jian Zhi as Bu Yang finished the array setup.

• Chen Zhanglei announced that teams would clear Star Sea Foreign Race strongholds around the Sword Qi Great Wall and choose an Immortal City as their base according to their first-trial rankings.
• Zhou Ling chose Sunday Immortal City, explaining that he intended to fight for the Dao Alliance and earn military merit; Yan Yu Tian chose Monday Immortal City.
• Feng Lan asked to send her group to Sunday Immortal City too, and Chen Zhanglei approved the choice.
• Zhou Ling, Qi Jian Zhi, and Bu Yang exchanged military merit for pills, and Zhou Ling gave Bu Yang the Minor Starlight Sword Array and Illusory Cloud Array to install on their warship.
• After Bu Yang completed the arrays, Zhou Ling inspected them while he and Qi Jian Zhi drank spirit wine and ate grilled meat on the deck.

Zhou Ling and his companions traveled to Sunday Immortal City for their trial, where his Blood Thunder Crow flock impressed them and defeated a lurking Feathered Snake. After arriving at the city’s military camp, they were assigned to the Vanguard Camp, and Fei Qinan greeted Zhou Ling warmly as Ji Siqing’s junior brother.

• Zhou Ling agreed to travel with Pei Qing Shuang, Feng Lan, and Tao Yue, and sent two Fourth Order Blood Thunder Crows ahead to scout.
• The Blood Thunder Crows killed a Mid Fourth-Tier Feathered Snake, and Zhou Ling revealed the larger flock that devoured its corpse.
• Mu Fu’s patrol escorted Zhou Ling and his companions to Sunday Immortal City’s main camp, where acting City Lord Cheng Yi assigned them to Commander Yue’s Vanguard Camp.
• Commander Yue examined the group’s records and was surprised that Tao Yue and Bu Yang were Fourth-Tier Formation Masters and Zhou Ling was a Fourth-Tier Artifact Refiner ranked first on the Heavenly Pride Ranking.
• Fei Qinan introduced himself as Ji Siqing’s junior brother and praised Zhou Ling’s reputation in Artifact Crafting.

Zhou Ling met Fei Qinan in Sunday Immortal City, where his unusual spiritual power and fourth-grade top-grade Spirit Flame led Fei Qinan to ask him to repair the damaged Sunday Immortal Sword. Zhou Ling examined the sword and discovered that interwoven Blood Fiend Chains were corroding its inscriptions.

• Fei Qinan invited Zhou Ling to sit with him and praised his powerful spiritual energy despite his Mid Golden Core cultivation.
• Zhou Ling explained that his Spirit Flame had helped him repair the Purple Cauldron Warship and could potentially repair some Fifth-Tier Treasures.
• Fei Qinan revealed that his senior brother Ji Siqing had praised Zhou Ling's artifact-refining potential and asked him to repair the damaged Sunday Immortal Sword.
• Cheng Yi brought out the sword, and Zhou Ling accepted it for examination while the Nascent Soul Cultivators watched.
• Zhou Ling used Intermediate Observation to enter the sword's interior and saw Blood Fiend Chains corroding its sword shadows and inscriptions.

Zhou Ling examined the Blood Fiend Star Array sealing the Sunday Immortal Sword and used his Bright Sun Burning Heaven Flame to test a repair. He discovered the array had three interlocking layers and needed additional Spirit Flames to destroy it completely, then withdrew to recover while the others realized he could repair the sword.

• Zhou Ling identified the seal as a Fifth-Tier High-Grade Blood Fiend Star Seal, and Fei Qinan and Cheng Yi waited while he examined the Sunday Immortal Sword.
• Zhou Ling told the gathered cultivators that fire or lightning power could destroy the seal, then revealed his Fifth-Tier Bright Sun Burning Heaven Flame and received permission from Fei Qinan to test it.
• Zhou Ling burned away part of the Blood Fiend Array, but the Blood Fiend energy repeatedly formed new arrays within it.
• Zhou Ling used Intermediate Analysis to find three arrays occupying different spaces and realized he needed other Spirit Flames to hold them back and destroy the weakest link.
• Zhou Ling withdrew the Bright Sun Burning Heaven Flame, took two Essence Augmentation Pills, and began recovering as the others watched in astonishment.

Zhou Ling agreed to repair the Sunday Immortal Sword in exchange for pills, spirit stones, and a position that would not prevent him from joining the trial afterward. As he began removing the Blood Fiend Star Array, he comprehended the sword’s intent and touched the threshold of the Five Realms of Sword Dao.

• Zhou Ling told Cheng Yi and Fei Qinan he could repair the Sunday Immortal Sword, and Cheng Yi promised resources and trial positions for Zhou Ling, Qi Jian Zhi, and Bu Yang.
• Zhou Ling clarified that he would join the trial after repairing the sword and would not remain in Sunday Immortal City to repair other weapons.
• Feng Lan departed for the Star Sea while Zhou Ling moved into a prepared tent and received pills and spirit stones.
• Zhou Ling studied the Sunday Immortal Sword, then used three spiritual flames to attack and suppress its Blood Fiend Star Array.
• As the array weakened, Zhou Ling observed the sword’s intent and condensed Heaven and Earth Sword Momentum in his Sea of Consciousness, touching the threshold of the Five Realms of Sword Dao.

Zhou Ling purified the Sunday Immortal Sword and witnessed its vast Sunday Sword Dao Dharma Analogy. As it merged with the Bright Sun Burning Heaven Flame, he comprehended a new Five Realms of Sword Dao, then began fusing it with his Five Elements Sword Intent.

• Zhou Ling used all five spirit flames to suppress and burn away the Blood Fiend Star Array without damaging the Sunday Immortal Sword’s seal.
• The revealed sword seal manifested a vast Sunday Sword Dao Dharma Analogy, and Zhou Ling chose not to absorb it directly to avoid weakening the sword.
• The Sunday Sword Dao Dharma Analogy merged into the Bright Sun Burning Heaven Flame, forming Golden Sun Sword Qi and revealing memories of the Sunday Immortal Sword fighting foreign races.
• Zhou Ling gained his own Five Realms of Sword Dao rules through the fusion, including Golden Sun and incineration, while recognizing that he would need time to master them.
• Zhou Ling’s Five Elements Sword Intent and Sunday Incinerating Sword Intent gradually overlapped, forming a Sword Domain with Five Elements sword light circling a sword sun.

Zhou Ling restored the Sunday Immortal Sword and transformed his Five Elements Sword Heart by comprehending its Sword Dao, but emerged from seclusion to find the camp besieged by the Star Sea Foreign Race. He refused to abandon the defenders and chose to stay and fight as Fei Qinan prepared to evacuate the other young cultivators.

• Zhou Ling comprehended the Sunday Sword Intent Edict, formed the Five Elements Bright Sun Sword Heart, and gained easier control over the Sunday Immortal Sword, which had recovered ninety percent.
• Zhou Ling left his tent and discovered that thousands of Star Sea Foreign Race members were attacking the camp, whose defensive formation was close to collapsing.
• Fei Qinan explained that the assault had begun three days earlier, while Qi Jian Zhi told Zhou Ling that the cultivators had been waiting to teleport out.
• Zhou Ling presented the restored Sunday Immortal Sword to Fei Qinan, astonishing the others with his ability to repair a Fifth-Tier treasure.
• When Fei Qinan offered to evacuate him, Zhou Ling insisted that the others leave while he stayed to help defend the camp.

Zhou Ling and his companions chose to remain in Sunday Immortal City as the Star Sea Foreign Race attacked, and the battle turned against the defenders. When the Sunday Immortal Sword rejected Fei Qinan, Zhou Ling took it up and unleashed its full power, destroying the enemy Blood Domain and driving back a Fifth-Tier foe.

• Qi Jian Zhi, Feng Lan, Bu Yang, and Pei Qing Shuang followed Zhou Ling into the fight, while Tao Yue stayed behind to protect himself.
• Fei Qinan rushed to aid Cheng Yi, but a Fifth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race creature intercepted him and demanded the Sunday Immortal Sword.
• Fei Qinan wielded the sword but struggled against the enemy’s Blood Domain, which suppressed his attacks and put him at a disadvantage.
• The Sunday Immortal Sword flew out of Fei Qinan’s hand, and Zhou Ling rushed beyond the defensive barrier to seize it.
• Zhou Ling unleashed a vast Golden Sword Domain that erased the Blood Domain, drove back the Fifth-Tier enemy, and shredded the Fourth-Tier creatures behind it.

Zhou Ling used the Sunday Immortal Sword and Bright Sun Burning Heaven Flame to withstand a Fifth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race’s blood domain and counter its attacks. The battle remained unresolved as Zhou Ling pierced the enemy’s Blood Flood Dragon, leaving the foreign race shocked by his power.

• Zhou Ling rescued Fei Qinan by using the Sunday Immortal Sword to tear apart the Star Sea Foreign Race’s blood domain.
• Zhou Ling refused Fei Qinan’s warnings and charged the Fifth-Tier enemy, while Qi Jian Zhi, Pei Qing Shuang, and Feng Lan watched anxiously.
• The Star Sea Foreign Race tested Zhou Ling with a blood vortex, but Zhou Ling used the sword sun and Bright Sun Burning Heaven Flame to destroy it.
• The foreign race launched a huge Blood Flood Dragon, and Zhou Ling’s golden sword light pierced through it within a few breaths.

Zhou Ling fought a Fifth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race by using the Sunday Immortal Sword and his spirit flames to break through its Blood Domain. He unleashed the Bright Sun Sword Sun Slash, and the two sides remained locked in a fierce clash.

• Zhou Ling sent three spirit flames against the Star Sea Foreign Race’s Blood Domain, burning through its rule suppression and opening a chance to attack.
• The Star Sea Foreign Race strengthened its Blood Domain with a Blood Mark Edict, but Zhou Ling analyzed its weakness and used his sword strikes to shrink the domain.
• Qi Jian Zhi, Pei Qing Shuang, and Feng Lan watched Zhou Ling drive the enemy back, while Tao Yue resolved not to provoke him again and Fei Qinan hurried to recover.
• The Star Sea Foreign Race released a poisonous bone blade, but Zhou Ling used the Azure Lotus Spirit Flame to counter its Poison Domain and destroy the blade’s attack.
• Zhou Ling poured the Bright Sun Burning Heaven Flame into the Sunday Immortal Sword and unleashed Bright Sun Sword Sun Slash against the enemy’s Blood Flood Dragon, bone blade, and Blood Domain.
• The sword sun, bone blade, and Blood Domain collided, and Zhou Ling and the Star Sea Foreign Race remained locked in a stalemate for several breaths.

Zhou Ling used the Sunday Immortal Sword and his spirit flames to kill Gu Lie, a Fifth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race, turning the tide of the battle and alarming the Tao Family. After refusing Fei Qinan’s offer to leave the battlefield, Zhou Ling joined Fei and Feng Lan’s group to help their embattled allies.

• Zhou Ling’s Sword Sun shattered Gu Lie’s Blood Domain while Dry Yang True Fire and Ice Spirit Crystal Flame battered his blood armor.
• Gu Lie called for help, but Cheng Yi held off Gu Yong, and Zhou Ling killed Gu Lie with a second Sword Sun and collected his bone ring.
• Cheng Yi announced Zhou Ling’s victory across the battlefield, rallying the human cultivators and shocking Qi Jian Zhi, Feng Lan, and Tao Yue.
• Fei Qinan praised Zhou Ling and urged him to return to safety, but Zhou Ling chose to keep fighting as a wielder acknowledged by the Sunday Immortal Sword.
• Fei Qinan agreed to stay with Zhou Ling and head toward Yu’s embattled group, while Feng Lan and the other three joined them.

Zhou Ling denied that he had fully entered the Five Realms of Sword Dao, but he led the human cultivators in Sunday Immortal City toward breaking the Star Sea Foreign Race’s Blood Fiend Great Formation. In Dragon Sword Immortal City, Chen Zhanglei recognized the danger and secured reinforcements, while Zhou Ling gathered hundreds of swords for his assault.

• Zhou Ling explained that the Sunday Immortal Sword’s power came from the Bright Sun Burning Heaven Flame and his Five Elements rules, not from fully entering the Five Realms of Sword Dao.
• Zhou Ling assigned Fei Qinan to help Yu Yin hold back a Fifth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race and promised to break the Blood Fiend Great Formation if they could buy him time.
• Chen Zhanglei inferred that Sunday Immortal City had been sealed and that Zhou Ling had killed a Fifth-Tier enemy, then persuaded Yuan Yu to send troops as reinforcements.
• Fei Qinan attacked the enemy’s blood domain, easing the pressure on Yu Yin as the battle over Sunday Immortal City’s formations continued.
• Zhou Ling called for the sword cultivators’ treasured blades, and hundreds of swords flew into his sword sun as Feng Lan recognized the display as a sign of Five Realms Sword Dao.