Chapter Summaries

Xia Wuji uncovered the Myriad Law Sect’s infiltration of Yin Mountain, killed one of its disciples, and sent Pengfei to warn Liu Bo and the others. He then absorbed soul spirits to strengthen his spiritual power and reached Yin Mountain, where he recognized a powerful seal and wondered about his mother’s connection to it.

• A captured Myriad Law Sect disciple revealed that nine sect members, led by an elder and including the genius Zhang He, had entered Yin Mountain to ambush Sun Moon Sect disciples before withdrawing after seven days.
• Xia Wuji killed the disciple, took his Storage Ring, and returned to find Pengfei fighting a fourth-tier low-grade male lion.
• Xia Wuji killed the lion with his Sword Intent and Bewitching Heart, then ordered Pengfei to warn Liu Bo and hunt three fourth-tier low-grade Demon Beasts within seven days.
• Xia Wuji absorbed and refined soul spirits, using the Great Brightness Pure Soul Method to cleanse their violent intent and strengthen his spiritual power.
• Xia Wuji reached the edge of Yin Mountain and saw that a powerful sealing technique covered the mountain, prompting him to wonder whether his mother had created it before he headed for the summit.

Xia Wuji fought and destroyed an evil spirit possessing a Mystic Armored Rhinoceros on Yin Mountain, then reached the summit and found nothing unusual. He realized he would need to prepare with the Sun Moon Sect’s resources before Extreme Yin Day, when stronger spirits would make the climb more dangerous.

• A possessed Mystic Armored Rhinoceros attacked Xia Wuji, and he used his swords and Five Elements Tribulation to sever its horn and drive it back.
• The evil spirit tried to possess Xia Wuji, but he lured it close and purified it with the Great Brightness Pure Soul Method before destroying it with his Spatial Sword Intent.
• Xia Wuji absorbed the purified soul power, and Yin Mountain’s formation suppressed the sealed Soul Clan’s violent response.
• Xia Wuji took the Mystic Armored Rhinoceros’s Demonic Core and continued to the summit, where he found no clues.
• Xia Wuji decided to use the time before Extreme Yin Day to prepare for stronger Baleful Spirits and uncover what Mother intended.

Xia Wuji strengthened his mental power by refining spirits near Yin Mountain before reuniting with the Sun Moon Sect disciples. After the Myriad Law Sect attacked their camp and challenged him to spar, Xia Wuji accepted and invited them to fight him together.

• Xia Wuji refined thirteen spirits near Yin Mountain, doubling his mental strength, then found Pengfei and rewarded him for hunting three Fourth-tier Low-grade Demon Beasts.
• Wang Tong found Xia Wuji and led him to Shan Chong and the other disciples, who thanked Xia Wuji for warning them about the Myriad Law Sect.
• Liu Bo, Lan Ling, and Hong Sheng offered Xia Wuji spirits, which he accepted, and Shan Chong ended the Yin Mountain trial early because the Myriad Law Sect intruders remained unaccounted for.
• Xia Wuji and the others returned to camp and found Sun Moon Sect members beaten; Xu Zhi appeared with Myriad Law Sect disciples and clashed with Shan Chong.
• Xu Zhi challenged Xia Wuji to spar through his disciples, and Xia Wuji accepted, asking who would go first before inviting them to attack together.

Xia Wuji accepted the Myriad Law Sect's challenge to prove his strength and secure the Third Branch Altar's support. After severing one disciple's arm with his flying sword, he faced Zhu Yan and prepared to test her Spirit Light Barrier.

• Xia Wuji rejected Wang Tong and Liu Bo's advice to let others fight and agreed to face the Myriad Law Sect himself.
• A fifth-layer Cave Heaven Realm disciple charged Xia Wuji, but Bewitching Heart clouded his mind and severed his right arm.
• Xia Wuji's flying sword shocked the Sun Moon Sect, while Xu Zhi dismissed his technique and sent Zhu Yan to challenge him.
• Zhu Yan activated her Spirit Light Barrier and taunted Xia Wuji, who rebuked Xu Zhi before unleashing Bewitching Heart in a surge of sword qi toward her.

Xia Wuji defeated Zhu Yan with his flying sword Bewitching Heart, then faced Zhang He after the Myriad Law Sect challenged him again. Zhang He briefly trapped Bewitching Heart, but Xia Wuji revealed a second flying sword, Blazing Embers, and blasted through Zhang He's defense and chest.

• Xia Wuji pierced Zhu Yan with Bewitching Heart, defeating her before she realized she had been wounded.
• Xu Zhi ordered the Myriad Law Sect disciples to retreat, then sent Zhang He to challenge Xia Wuji.
• Xia Wuji told Zhang He that making him move one step would count as victory.
• Zhang He guarded his mind and trapped Bewitching Heart in a vortex of sword light, drawing cheers from the Myriad Law Sect.
• Xia Wuji launched his second flying sword, Blazing Embers, which destroyed Zhang He's vortex and blasted a hole through his chest.

Xia Wuji defeated Zhang He with his flying swords, forcing the Myriad Law Sect to retreat, then returned to the Sun Moon Sect’s Third Branch Altar. After revealing his skill and receiving permission to cultivate as he wished, he claimed an unexpectedly wide range of resources, leaving Zhang Jian and the elders wondering what he planned to do.

• Xia Wuji’s two flying swords critically wounded Zhang He, and Xu Zhi withdrew the Myriad Law Sect’s people after Shan Chong burned his life force to deter him.
• Shan Chong escorted Xia Wuji back to the Third Branch Altar, where Zhang Jian learned that Xia Wuji specialized in flying swords and voided his required cultivation plan.
• Xia Wuji agreed to stay at the altar for safety, asked about claiming resources, and received permission to take anything the altar had as long as he did not waste it.
• Xia Wuji claimed resources spanning alchemy, artifact refinement, talisman crafting, formations, and Demonic Cores, prompting Zhang Jian and Shan Chong to wonder what he was planning.

Xia Wuji prepared pills, Bright Spirit Talismans, and a formation for the coming Extreme Yin Day, then advanced to the ninth level of the Return to One Realm during his retreat. After learning the main altar had not approved the Radiant Spirit Stones he needed, he went to meet Zhang Jian.

• Zhang Jian and Shan Chong decided to let Xia Wuji pursue his own cultivation for now and guide him later.
• Xia Wuji refined three soul essences, made pills, and crafted thirty-two Bright Spirit Talismans, including one especially powerful talisman using the Third Branch Altar's only Radiant Spirit Stone.
• Xia Wuji made twenty-eight Formation Flags that could form a fourth-grade middle-tier formation, while Pengfei neared advancement to a fourth-grade Demon Beast.
• Xia Wuji cultivated for twenty days, rising from the seventh to the ninth level of the Return to One Realm, while Pengfei continued nearing his breakthrough.
• Xia Wuji learned the main altar had not approved the requested Radiant Spirit Stones, then went to meet Zhang Jian.

Xia Wuji traveled with Zhang Jian to the Sun Moon Sect's Main Altar, where he learned about the Sacred Ranking and met Lin Piaoxue. The chapter left him helping Lin Piaoxue regulate the unstable energy caused by her cultivation.

• Zhang Jian told Xia Wuji he would take him to the Main Altar and said he would try again to obtain Radiant Spirit Stones for him.
• Xia Wuji traveled with Zhang Jian to the Main Altar, where Shan Chong explained that the Sacred Ranking competition ranked the Holy Sons and Holy Maidens of the twelve branch altars.
• Shan Chong told Xia Wuji that the current Ninth Holy Maiden, Lin Piaoxue, was ranked twelfth on the Sacred Ranking.
• Lin Piaoxue reunited with Xia Wuji and told him Zhou Han and Yue Xuan had both been punished after their earlier actions.
• Xia Wuji noticed Lin Piaoxue's unstable aura and brought her to a secret chamber to regulate her energy.

Xia Wuji prepared to leave his name on the Sun Moon Sect’s Sacred Ranking while the branch altar masters competed to recruit him. At the ranking, Zhao Zichuan chose to fight Xia Wuji and warned him to stay away from Lin Piaoxue.

• Xia Wuji healed Lin Piaoxue, who thanked him and said she would cheer him on when he attempted the Sacred Ranking.
• Zhang Jian told Xia Wuji that the Main Altar leader was impressed by his flying sword technique and explained that the Seventh Branch Altar’s Holy Maiden had also requested the Blazing Light Spirit Stone.
• Xia Wuji went to the Sacred Ranking with Zhang Jian and Shan Chong, where Altar Master Wu Lin tried to recruit him into the Second Branch Altar; Xia Wuji declined for the time being.
• Xia Wuji inspected the Sacred Ranking and saw Lin Piaoxue in twelfth place and Zhao Zichuan in sixteenth.
• Zhao Zichuan volunteered to fight Xia Wuji and warned him to stay away from Lin Piaoxue.

Xia Wuji defeated Zhao Zichuan with a single flying-sword strike and earned the right to enter the Sun Moon Sect’s Sacred Ranking. As he inscribed his name, the ranking granted him an unusually powerful baptism that helped his cultivation break through.

• Zhao Zichuan threatened Xia Wuji, then challenged him as guardian of the Sacred Ranking test after his cultivation was suppressed to the Return to One Realm Ninth Layer.
• Xia Wuji sent the flying sword Huo Xin to Zhao Zichuan’s brow and stopped it before it could injure him, leaving Zhao Zichuan mentally overwhelmed.
• The other Holy Sons, Holy Maidens, and an elder confirmed that Xia Wuji had defeated Zhao Zichuan, who fled in humiliation.
• At Zhang Jian’s urging, Xia Wuji flew to the Sacred Ranking and inscribed his name with his sword qi.
• The Sacred Ranking gave Xia Wuji a baptism with far more energy than usual, and his cultivation broke through another layer.

After ranking twentieth on the Sacred Ranking and reaching the tenth level of the Return to One Realm, Xia Wuji sought Radiant Spirit Stones for the Third Branch Altar. When Yue Bufan refused and provoked Zhang Jian, Xia Wuji declared he would surpass Liao Lan’s ranking by the next day to claim the stones.

• Xia Wuji reached the tenth level of the Return to One Realm after the Sacred Ranking’s energy baptism and exchanged congratulations with He Yong and Mu Wan.
• Zhang Jian asked Yue Bufan for Radiant Spirit Stones, but Yue Bufan said they would go to Liao Lan because she ranked higher on the Sacred Ranking.
• Yue Bufan refused to trade the stones, blamed Xia Wuji for Yue Xuan’s ruined cultivation, and ordered Liao Lan to hand the stones over to him.
• Yue Bufan provoked Zhang Jian until Zhang Jian drew his sword, but Liang Shan restrained him and warned him not to fall into Yue Bufan’s trap.
• Xia Wuji said he would surpass Liao Lan’s Sacred Ranking position by the next day, despite her 280 points and his own zero, and told Yue Bufan he would show him what he was capable of.

After challenging Yue Bufan to watch him surpass Liao Lan on the Sacred Ranking, Xia Wuji went to the Pill Refining Peak to earn points. He refined a Fourth-grade Low-tier Pill and earned one hundred points, then headed to the Artifact Forging Peak as Ren Tianxing and Zhang Jian rushed after him to see what he would do next.

• Xia Wuji rejected Zhang Jian's offer to take him away from the challenge and asked Shan Chong to escort him to the Pill Refining Peak.
• Zhang Jian asked Ren Tianxing to help protect Xia Wuji from a humiliating defeat, but Ren Tianxing refused to interfere with the Sacred Ranking.
• Xia Wuji refined a Fourth-grade Low-tier Pill in three hours and earned one hundred Sacred Ranking points.
• A Pill Refining Peak elder told Ren Tianxing and Zhang Jian that Xia Wuji had gone to the Artifact Forging Peak to earn another one hundred points.
• Ren Tianxing and Zhang Jian hurried to the Artifact Forging Peak to see whether Xia Wuji could display another extraordinary talent.

Xia Wuji earned Sacred Ranking points by forging a fourth-tier spirit sword and deploying a fourth-tier formation, surpassing Liao Lan while impressing Sun Moon Sect’s leaders. Ren Tianxing concealed Xia Wuji’s abilities to protect him and invited him to Sun Moon Pool, the sect’s most important restricted site.

• Xia Wuji forged a fourth-tier low-grade spirit sword, earning one hundred Sacred Ranking points and astonishing the elders of Artifact Forging Peak.
• Ren Tianxing and Zhang Jian realized Xia Wuji intended to earn more points at Formation Peak, and Ren ordered everyone to keep his talents secret.
• Xia Wuji confirmed he could make higher-grade weapons and refine higher-grade pills, then went with the group to Formation Peak.
• Xia Wuji deployed a fourth-tier low-grade Origin-Gathering Grand Formation, bringing his total to three hundred points and surpassing Liao Lan on the Sacred Ranking.
• Ren Tianxing promised to conceal Xia Wuji’s rise while handling his ranking, then invited him to Sun Moon Pool.

Xia Wuji entered the Sun Moon Pool, secretly comprehended its yin and yang inheritances, and broke through to the Cave Heaven Realm. Ren Tianxing gave him a secret-realm mission to replace his publicly earned points and let him rise to fourteenth place on the Sacred Ranking without drawing attention.

• Ren Tianxing explained that the Sun Moon Sect's Yin Yang Spirit Martial Art came from merging the Great Sun Heart Scripture and Moon Radiance Heart Scripture, and brought Xia Wuji to the Sun Moon Pool to try comprehending them.
• Xia Wuji entered the Sun Pool, then secretly drew on both pools' yin and yang energies to obtain the two inheritances and open a Cave Heaven more than a hundred zhang in each dimension.
• Xia Wuji concealed his breakthrough and comprehension when Ren Tianxing returned, saying he had not sensed anything and avoiding the month-long trial required of those who comprehended either heart scripture.
• Ren Tianxing gave Xia Wuji a secret-realm exploration mission worth three hundred points, allowing him to replace the points from his public accomplishments and rise to fourteenth place on the Sacred Ranking.
• Xia Wuji returned to the Third Branch Altar's residence and, guided by Zhang Jian, headed back to the Sacred Ranking.

Xia Wuji surpassed Liao Lan on the Sacred Ranking after the Sun Moon Sect’s mission peak awarded him 300 points for his Luoyan Secret Realm map. Yue Bufan disputed the result, but the mission peak upheld it, and Xia Wuji left with Zhang Jian to collect his Radiant Spirit Stones.

• Xia Wuji arrived with Zhang Jian to face Yue Bufan and Liao Lan before the deadline for surpassing Liao Lan’s ranking.
• A mission peak elder announced that Xia Wuji’s Luoyan Secret Realm map had earned him 300 Sacred Ranking points.
• Xia Wuji’s score rose from zero to 300, moving him past Liao Lan and into fifteenth place.
• Yue Bufan accused Xia Wuji of fraud and threatened Zhang Jian, but the mission peak elder confirmed that the map and points had been verified.
• Xia Wuji told Yue Bufan he could broaden his horizons further, then left with Zhang Jian to collect his Radiant Spirit Stones.

Xia Wuji returned from the Sun Moon Sect's main altar with Radiant Spirit Stones as the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends' resurgence became a threat across the prefecture. He discovered that a powerful guardian was secretly following him and resolved to evade the watcher so he could enter Yin Mountain on Extreme Yin Day without revealing his plans.

• Xia Wuji collected sixteen Radiant Spirit Stones and followed Zhang Jian back toward the Third Branch Altar.
• Yue Bufan challenged Xia Wuji's Sacred Ranking points, but Ren Tianxing promised an investigation and ordered Yue Bufan to return to his altar amid reports of the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends' return.
• Ren Tianxing told Bai Ye that Xia Wuji needed to face danger to grow, then tasked Bai Ye with secretly protecting him.
• Zhang Jian told Xia Wuji that the Twelve Fiends included six Life and Death Realm and six Nirvana Realm cultivators, and warned him to avoid unnecessary outings.
• Xia Wuji sensed Bai Ye following them in secret and decided to shake off the guardian before entering Yin Mountain on Extreme Yin Day.

Xia Wuji strengthened his cultivation and prepared for the coming conflict at Yin Mountain, while Pengfei broke through to the fourth tier. At the Holy Maiden's Courtyard, Xia Wuji detected a concealed Gu aura in Yi Shengnan's maid Xiao Qing, who suddenly attacked him.

• Xia Wuji made sixteen enhanced Bright Spirit Talismans, refined pills, and opened a second grotto-heaven before filling both with Sword Essence.
• Pengfei broke through to the fourth tier, gained ten percent of the Golden Winged Great Peng bloodline, and received the Nine Consecutive Slashes of the Golden Wing technique from Xia Wuji.
• Xia Wuji went to meet Yi Shengnan, who gave him a Snow Jade Heavenly Ginseng and invited him to drink.
• Xia Wuji noticed a concealed Gu aura on Xiao Qing and learned that she had rescued Yi Shengnan during her travels.
• Xiao Qing's fingernails turned black and sharp as she lunged at Xia Wuji's throat.

Xia Wuji exposed Gu Fiend Evil Lord’s disciple hiding inside Xiao Qing and fought off her attack while Yi Shengnan was poisoned. After Xia Wuji killed the disciple’s personal Gu, explosions across the Third Branch Altar revealed that the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends had begun their assault.

• Xiao Qing attacked Xia Wuji, who cut her back with sword qi and recognized that she had become a Gu puppet.
• Xiao Qing revealed that Gu Fiend Evil Lord’s disciple had infiltrated the Sun Moon Sect’s Third Branch Altar and that the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends planned to massacre it.
• Yi Shengnan attacked Xiao Qing, but the Gu worms shattered her sword light and the poison in her body flared up; Xia Wuji rescued and stabilized her.
• Xia Wuji used his flying swords to fight the Gu worms, then activated Earth Foot and struck Xiao Qing down with the Jinghong Sword.
• Xia Wuji cut the disciple’s personal Gu in two and crushed it, while his flying swords destroyed the remaining Gu worms.
• Explosions sounded throughout the Third Branch Altar as the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends launched their all-out assault.

During the assault on the Sun Moon Sect's Third Branch Altar, Xia Wuji treated Yi Shengnan and was caught in a desperate battle as Blade Fiend Evil Lord attacked. Surrounded and pressured to betray the sect, Xia Wuji refused, and a powerful saber-wielding woman charged at him.

• Xia Wuji used the Taiyi Golden Needle Technique to expel poisonous blood and gu insects from Yi Shengnan, stabilizing her condition.
• Bai Ye arrived and tried to take Xia Wuji and Yi Shengnan away, but Blade Fiend Evil Lord appeared and attacked him, forcing the Third Branch Altar's elder to lead the others toward escape.
• Gu insects and saber cultivators surrounded Xia Wuji and his companions, while the Third Branch Altar's elder was pressed by two Life and Death Realm enemies.
• Xia Wuji used his flying swords and Five Elements Tribulation to kill several attackers and fend off a strike from behind.
• A woman serving Blade Fiend Evil Lord offered Xia Wuji a chance to survive if he killed Yi Shengnan and became their spy, but Xia Wuji refused and mocked her strength.
• The woman attacked Xia Wuji with a fierce barrage of overlapping blade waves.

Xia Wuji and Pengfei helped the Third Branch Altar defeat the enemy forces attacking them, but the altar’s formation remained inactive. As Bai Ye faltered against Blade Fiend Evil Lord, Xia Wuji went with Yi Shengnan to the formation’s core, where he prepared to try to activate it.

• Pengfei arrived and killed Blade Fiend Evil Lord’s female disciple and Gu Fiend Evil Lord’s disciple, then helped Xia Wuji and the Third Branch Altar’s cultivators defeat the nearby enemies.
• Xia Wuji asked Yi Shengnan about the altar’s formation, and she explained that the Fifth-tier Top-grade Eight Directions Returning Yuan Formation had not activated because enemies had likely infiltrated its core formation eye.
• After seeing Bai Ye wounded and the altar’s other elder hard-pressed, Xia Wuji urged Yi Shengnan to lead him to the formation’s core.
• Xia Wuji, Yi Shengnan, Pengfei, and a group of Third Branch Altar elites fought their way through the ruins, suffering heavy casualties along the way.
• At the silent valley containing the core formation eye, Xia Wuji told Yi Shengnan to step back as he prepared to begin.