Chapter Summaries

Xia Wuji secretly took control of the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord’s perfected golden corpse and waited for his soul to return. When the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord entered the body, Xia Wuji destroyed his soul and claimed the golden corpse.

• Xia Wuji hid inside the formation with Pengfei while waiting for the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord’s soul to return to the golden corpse.
• Zhang Jian, Liu Luan, and He Hui destroyed the decoy golden corpse, and the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord blew up his possessed body before escaping into his formation.
• The Corpse Fiend Evil Lord found his soul trapped when he entered the perfected golden corpse, which Xia Wuji had secretly controlled.
• Xia Wuji used the Great Brightness Pure Soul Method to break the Soul Blessing Art protecting the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord’s soul.
• Xia Wuji cleaved apart the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord’s soul and took complete control of the golden corpse.

After the battle at Corpse Ghost Cave, Xia Wuji secretly kept the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord’s golden corpse and returned to the Third Branch Altar. He refined it into a golden sword puppet while advancing to the Cave Heaven Realm Fifth Layer, leaving him with a powerful new weapon.

• Xia Wuji slipped out of the formation with Pengfei and hid the golden corpse, while Zhang Jian, Liu Luan, and He Hui broke through the formation and found it empty.
• The Sun Moon Sect defeated the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord’s forces, and Zhang Jian credited Xia Wuji’s spirit talismans with helping turn the battle around.
• Zhang Jian rewarded Xia Wuji and Yi Shengnan, warned them that Azure Prefecture was heading into chaos, and sent them to cultivate.
• Xia Wuji decided to refine the sinister golden corpse into a sword puppet and spent half a month cultivating, opening his fifth Cave Heaven and reaching the Cave Heaven Realm Fifth Layer.
• Xia Wuji completed the refinement, turning the golden corpse into a Grade Six Low-grade Spirit Sword that could transform into a sword puppet.

After learning that he had risen to fourth on the Sacred Ranking, Xia Wuji prepared for the main altar trial by refining supplies, practicing the True Martial Sword Art, and training Pengfei. He arrived at the main altar with Yi Shengnan and began the Sacred Ranking’s energy baptism before the trial.

• Zhang Jian told Xia Wuji that the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends were withdrawing, the Corpse Fiend Evil Lord had been replaced, and the main altar had summoned branch Holy Sons and Holy Maidens for trials tied to the Sacred Ranking.
• Zhang Jian revealed that Xia Wuji had received points for his talismans at Corpse Ghost Cave and now ranked fourth with 750 points, only ten behind Yi Shengnan.
• Xia Wuji gathered Spirit Medicine, refined pills, made fourth-grade Formation Flags, practiced the True Martial Sword Art, and sparred with Pengfei using three flying swords.
• Xia Wuji added the Qianji flying sword to his arsenal, then used it to knock Pengfei down during their next training session.
• Yi Shengnan told Xia Wuji that they would leave for the main altar, where he could receive a Sacred Ranking baptism before the trial.
• Xia Wuji saw that only sixteen names remained on the Sacred Ranking, then flew beneath it and received its descending energy baptism.

Xia Wuji absorbed the Sacred Ranking baptism, opened his sixth Cave Heaven, and defeated Song Chao and Zhang Man after they tried to obstruct and injure him. He left the two followers of Liu Xiao subdued beneath the ranking.

• Xia Wuji absorbed the baptismal energy from his jump to fourth place but initially failed to open his sixth Cave Heaven.
• Song Chao arrived and stole Xia Wuji’s remaining baptismal energy, while Zhang Man blocked Yi Shengnan from intervening.
• Song Chao warned Xia Wuji to abandon any hope of becoming the Main Altar Holy Son, but Xia Wuji reclaimed the energy and opened his sixth Cave Heaven.
• Song Chao attacked Xia Wuji with the Crimson Miasma Palm, and Xia Wuji cut through the attack and wounded him with his sword.
• Pengfei struck Zhang Man down and pinned her, while Xia Wuji stood over both defeated attackers and asked whether that was all they had.

Xia Wuji and Pengfei defeated Song Chao and Zhang Man, but Elder Li provoked Pengfei into a frenzy and tried to kill him. Zhang Jian arrived just as Elder Li moved to attack Xia Wuji, and sent him flying with one sword.

• Xia Wuji suppressed Song Chao with one sword, while Pengfei defeated Zhang Man and stood on her.
• Elder Li secretly agitated Pengfei, who charged into the crowd and injured several disciples before Xia Wuji calmed him.
• Elder Li claimed Pengfei was dangerous and demanded Xia Wuji hand him over to be executed, while Yi Shengnan defended Xia Wuji.
• Xia Wuji accused Elder Li of causing Pengfei's frenzy, and Elder Li denied it before threatening to punish Xia Wuji and kill Pengfei.
• Zhang Jian arrived and knocked Elder Li flying with one sword, then rebuked him for threatening the Third Branch Altar's Holy Son and Holy Maiden.

Zhang Jian defended Xia Wuji after the First Branch Altar’s supporters targeted him and pushed to restrict Pengfei, while the Sect Master privately assured them the Golden Peng would be left alone. Lin Piaoxue visited Xia Wuji ahead of the trial missions and asked him to help with her cultivation again.

• Zhang Jian struck down a Main Altar elder who had attacked Xia Wuji and Yi Shengnan, then explained that Liu Xiao’s supporters feared Xia Wuji might become Holy Son of the Main Altar.
• Zhang Jian reported that several Branch Altar Masters and Main Altar elders had demanded Pengfei be killed, and that the Sect Master had ordered Xia Wuji to leave the Golden Peng behind during the trial.
• Zhang Jian told Xia Wuji that the order to tame Pengfei was only for show and promised to return the Golden Peng to the Third Branch Altar before the trial began.
• Pengfei promised Xia Wuji it would train hard and never go berserk again, joking that it would roast its own wings if it failed.
• Lin Piaoxue visited Xia Wuji, praised his recent accomplishments, and entered his room after Yi Shengnan teased them and left to prepare for the trial.
• Lin Piaoxue asked Xia Wuji to help clear her acupoints, and he agreed to use a more in-depth method than before.

Xia Wuji helped Lin Piaoxue cultivate the Moon Radiance Heart Scripture before the Main Altar Trial began. At the main hall, tensions flared between the Third Branch Altar and Liu Zhengyuan’s First Branch Altar, and Sect Master Ren Tianxing announced that the branch altars’ Holy Sons and Holy Maidens would draw lots for trials against the defeated Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends.

• Lin Piaoxue fulfilled her promise to Xia Wuji, and he used the Great Sun Heart Scripture to help her cultivate the Moon Radiance Heart Scripture.
• Yi Shengnan gave Xia Wuji Great Tonifying Pills before the trial and joked that she would have pursued him if she liked men.
• Zhang Jian brought Xia Wuji and Yi Shengnan to the main hall, where the branch altar leaders and their Holy Sons and Holy Maidens gathered.
• Liu Xiao threatened to kill Xia Wuji’s giant bird after becoming Main Altar Holy Son, and Zhang Jian confronted Liu Zhengyuan when Liu Xiao drew his spear.
• Ren Tianxing announced a trial using the defeated remnants of the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends and ordered the candidates to draw lots to determine their trials.

Xia Wuji drew Trial Mission One and set out alone for the Blazing Desert to hunt the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends’ scattered geniuses. Zhang Man and Yang Ming planned to use the mission to take revenge on him, and Xia Wuji sought clues from Sun Moon Sect cultivators after arriving in the desert.

• Ren Tianxing announced that the trial would last one month and warned the disciples not to attack or kill fellow Sun Moon Sect members.
• Xia Wuji examined his mission scroll, which listed ten targets, including Qin Qian, worth fifty points, and Qiu Sen, worth five.
• Lin Piaoxue and Yi Shengnan departed together, while Xia Wuji flew alone toward the Blazing Desert on a flying sword.
• Li Bo and Ye Caiwei decided to avoid getting involved in the expected conflict between Xia Wuji and Zhang Man and Yang Ming.
• Zhang Man and Yang Ming vowed to kill Xia Wuji in the Blazing Desert and avenge the earlier offense.
• After two days, Xia Wuji reached the Blazing Desert and approached a group of Sun Moon Sect cultivators to ask for clues about his targets.

Xia Wuji tracked Guo Song through a trace of blood after healing a Sun Moon Sect cultivator wounded by him. Guo Song and Qiu Sen planned to capture a Sun Moon Sect Holy Son or Holy Maiden, but Xia Wuji found them, and they recognized him as a valuable target.

• Xia Wuji met Sun Moon Sect cultivators hunting the Azure Prefecture Twelve Fiends, learned that Guo Song had escaped, and used a wounded cultivator's blood to track him.
• Xia Wuji healed the cultivator's Blood Slaughtering Spirit Palm wound and followed Guo Song's aura with the Hundred Mile Tracking Technique.
• Guo Song met Qiu Sen in a concealed chamber and persuaded him to join a plan to capture a Sun Moon Sect Holy Son or Holy Maiden as leverage.
• Xia Wuji broke through the chamber's formation, forcing Guo Song and Qiu Sen into the air.
• Guo Song identified Xia Wuji, and he and Qiu Sen became excited at the prospect of capturing him for a powerful bargaining chip and rewards.

Xia Wuji defeated Guo Song and Qiu Sen, learned that Qin Qian and Li Jiang were seeking a Nirvana Realm expert’s corpse and that Li Xin was nearby, then set out to find her. Meanwhile, Yang Ming split from Zhang Man to search for Xia Wuji, unaware that Zhang Man concealed her own agenda as she headed northwest.

• Xia Wuji used his two flying swords to defeat Qiu Sen and Guo Song, then tortured Guo Song’s soul until he agreed to talk.
• Qiu Sen revealed that Qin Qian and Li Jiang were seeking a dried corpse left by a Nirvana Realm expert, and Guo Song said Li Xin was within thirty li.
• Xia Wuji killed Guo Song and Qiu Sen, took their resources, and began searching the area for Li Xin.
• Yang Ming asked Zhang Man to split up so they could search more efficiently, and Zhang Man gave him a jade pendant to defend against Xia Wuji’s flying swords.
• After Yang Ming departed, Zhang Man concealed her disdain and headed northwest through the Blazing Desert.

Xia Wuji defeated Li Xin’s nested illusions in the Blazing Desert and learned where Qin Qian and Li Jiang were hiding a powerful Dried Corpse. As he prepared to investigate, Yang Ming attacked him with a spirit-weapon longbow.

• Xia Wuji dispelled Li Xin’s oasis illusion, saw through her second illusion, and destroyed her dantian.
• Li Xin revealed that Qin Qian and Li Jiang sought a Dried Corpse hidden in the northwestern Blazing Desert, within the Wind Flame Sandstorm.
• Xia Wuji killed Li Xin, collected her head, and searched her Storage Ring.
• An arrow from Yang Ming struck at Xia Wuji, who blocked it with his two flying swords.
• Yang Ming identified himself as the Sun Moon Sect’s Fourth Branch Altar Holy Son and drew his bow to attack again.

Xia Wuji defeated and killed Yang Ming, then followed Zhang Man’s talisman into the Wind Flame Sandstorm. There he discovered Sun Moon Sect cultivators trapped by the storm and found that Zhang Man had brought people to help Qin Qian and Li Jiang refine a Nirvana Realm expert’s Dried Corpse.

• Xia Wuji overcame Yang Ming’s defenses, crippled his cultivation, and killed him after learning Zhang Man could be contacted with a talisman.
• Xia Wuji used the talisman’s bird phantom to track Zhang Man, then destroyed it to avoid being seen and traced to Yang Ming’s death.
• Xia Wuji entered the Wind Flame Sandstorm, protecting himself with his own power as he followed the screams.
• Xia Wuji found Li Bo, Ye Caiwei, and over a hundred Sun Moon Sect cultivators trapped in a damaged formation as the storm set several people ablaze.
• In an underground palace, Zhang Man told Qin Qian and Li Jiang that she had brought the people they needed and that each of them owed her a life, then left.

Xia Wuji rescued the Sun Moon Sect cultivators from the Wind Flame Sandstorm and joined Zhang Man’s group to hunt Qin Qian and Li Jiang. Zhang Man led them underground toward the ambush, while Qin Qian and Li Jiang prepared an Evil Corpse and waited for fresh victims.

• Xia Wuji used the Sky Burning Art to extinguish the flames on the Sun Moon Sect cultivators and repaired the formation.
• Li Bo told Xia Wuji that Zhang Man had summoned them to help eliminate Qin Qian and Li Jiang, and Xia Wuji decided to wait for Zhang Man outside the formation.
• Zhang Man returned, invited Xia Wuji to join the hunt, and promised to distribute the trial points fairly; Xia Wuji accepted while planning to turn her scheme against her.
• Zhang Man led the group through the strengthened Wind Flame Sandstorm and into an underground passage toward Qin Qian and Li Jiang.
• Qin Qian told Li Jiang that their Evil Corpse needed more flesh and blood, and Li Jiang left to deal with the incoming group.

Zhang Man lured Xia Wuji, Li Bo, Ye Caiwei, and the Sun Moon Sect cultivators into a corpse-poison ambush, revealing that she was a spy serving the Soul Fiend Evil Lord. She attacked Xia Wuji, but he killed her with a third flying sword, leaving Li Jiang as the remaining threat.

• Zhang Man left the group, and a surge of corpse poison incapacitated most of the Sun Moon Sect cultivators while Xia Wuji, Li Bo, and Ye Caiwei stayed standing.
• Xia Wuji stopped Ye Caiwei from taking her own life and revealed that Zhang Man had set the trap.
• Zhang Man returned with Li Jiang and admitted she had served the Soul Fiend Evil Lord since childhood, then demanded the chance to kill Xia Wuji herself.
• Zhang Man attacked Xia Wuji with her seven-colored silk ribbon and blocked his first two flying swords.
• Xia Wuji sent out his third flying sword, Lost Life, which pierced Zhang Man's brow and shocked the onlookers.

Xia Wuji killed Li Jiang, rescued Li Bo and the others, and confronted Qin Qian in the underground palace. After her dried corpse overwhelmed his four flying swords, Xia Wuji summoned a golden sword puppet to strike it.

• Xia Wuji killed Li Jiang and took his Storage Ring.
• Xia Wuji gave Li Bo pills for corpse poison, then sent him, Ye Caiwei, and the other Sun Moon Sect cultivators away while he searched for Qin Qian.
• Qin Qian tried to recruit Xia Wuji and used her black flag to unleash countless yin souls, but his fourth flying sword shattered the flag.
• Qin Qian revealed that her dried corpse had been refined from a Nirvana Realm expert and could unleash power comparable to a peak Life and Death Realm expert.
• The dried corpse knocked Xia Wuji's four flying swords aside and charged at him, so he summoned a golden sword puppet to attack it.

Xia Wuji killed Qin Qian and gained a trace of Soul Fiend Evil Lord’s soul aura before returning to the Sun Moon Sect’s main altar with enough trial points to take first place on the Sacred Ranking. Liu Xiao returned soon after, claiming he would become a Main Altar Holy Son, and Xia Wuji openly challenged his certainty.

• Xia Wuji’s sword puppet defeated Qin Qian’s Dried Corpse, and Xia Wuji crippled Qin Qian before questioning her about Soul Fiend Evil Lord.
• When Xia Wuji tried to search Qin Qian’s soul, a hidden power detonated it, but he seized a faint trace of Soul Fiend Evil Lord’s soul aura and then left the underground palace.
• Xia Wuji reunited with Li Bo and the others, confirmed Qin Qian was dead, and departed after they offered to testify about Zhang Man.
• Xia Wuji killed three more trial targets, returned to the main altar, and registered enough points to rise from fourth place to first on the Sacred Ranking.
• Liu Xiao returned and boasted that he would reach one thousand points and become a Main Altar Holy Son, but Xia Wuji told him he could not and left the hall.

As Liu Xiao prepared to be named the Sun Moon Sect's Main Altar Holy Son, Liu Zhengyuan and Ye Jiang maneuvered against Xia Wuji over Yang Ming's death. At the ceremony, Xia Wuji openly opposed Liu Xiao's appointment, leaving the gathered sect leaders and disciples stunned.

• Liu Zhengyuan warned Liu Xiao that he needed to suppress Xia Wuji and assured him Zhang Man's exposure would not affect his appointment.
• Zhang Jian brought Pengfei to the Main Altar, where Pengfei told Xia Wuji he had advanced to the fourth-stage upper-grade realm.
• Xia Wuji helped Lin Piaoxue break through to the Yin Yang Realm the night before the ceremony.
• Ye Jiang accused Xia Wuji indirectly of involvement in Yang Ming's death, and Liu Xiao vowed to investigate and kill Xia Wuji if he found him guilty.
• Ren Tianxing asked whether anyone objected to Liu Xiao becoming Main Altar Holy Son, and Xia Wuji stepped forward to oppose the appointment.

Xia Wuji challenged Liu Xiao’s appointment as Main Altar Holy Son and proved his claim by revealing that he had mastered the Yin Yang Spirit Martial Art. Ren Tianxing recognized Xia Wuji’s right to the position, and Xia Wuji kicked Liu Xiao out of the hall.

• Xia Wuji objected to Liu Xiao becoming Main Altar Holy Son and cited the sect’s rule that mastering the Yin Yang Spirit Martial Art took precedence.
• Xia Wuji manifested the perfected Great Sun Heart Scripture and Moon Radiance Heart Scripture, then fused their powers into yin and yang.
• Liu Xiao charged at Xia Wuji, but Ren Tianxing used his power to pin Liu Xiao to the ground.
• Xia Wuji declared himself the new Main Altar Holy Son and ordered Liu Xiao to leave.
• Xia Wuji kicked Liu Xiao beneath the chin and sent him flying out of the main hall.

Xia Wuji became the Sun Moon Sect's Main Altar Holy Son after revealing that he had mastered the Yin Yang Spirit Martial Art. Ren Tianxing gave him the Yin Yang Spirit Mirror and prepared him to take charge of the sect's affairs in Qing City, where Xia Wuji would face political challenges.

• Ren Tianxing promoted Xia Wuji to Main Altar Holy Son, and the sect's leaders congratulated him.
• Ren Tianxing made the Sun Moon Pool Xia Wuji's exclusive cultivation ground and gave him the Yin Yang Spirit Mirror.
• Ren Tianxing told Xia Wuji to cultivate for half a month before going to Qing City to manage the sect's affairs and build ties with the True Dragon Hall and Alchemy Pagoda.
• Zhang Jian warned Xia Wuji that Liu Zhengyuan's faction could challenge him in Qing City, and Xia Wuji asked Zhang Jian to send more people to Yin Mountain.
• Lin Piaoxue promised to join Xia Wuji in Qing City, and Xia Wuji returned to the Sun Moon Pool for closed-door cultivation.

After half a month of cultivation, Xia Wuji reached the eighth layer of the Cave Heaven Realm and mastered the Yin Yang Spirit Mirror before setting out for Qingcheng with Bai Ye. There, Zhou Da and Liu Xiao plotted to undermine him as he took charge of the Sun Moon Spirit Market.

• Xia Wuji advanced to the eighth layer of the Cave Heaven Realm, refined the Yin Yang Spirit Mirror, and demonstrated its power to Ren Tianxing.
• Ren Tianxing appointed Bai Ye to accompany and protect Xia Wuji in Qingcheng, while warning Bai Ye not to shield him from every challenge.
• Xia Wuji told Bai Ye that his mission was to strengthen ties with the True Dragon Hall and Pill Pagoda and manage the Sun Moon Spirit Market, which Zhou Da had overseen for twelve years.
• At the Sun Moon Spirit Market, Zhou Da promised Liu Xiao he would help suppress Xia Wuji and keep Liu Xiao out of sight at first.
• Zhou Da claimed Xia Wuji would find no leverage against him and planned a public surprise to embarrass him on his first day in Qingcheng.