Chapter Summaries

Xia Wuji helped turn the ambush at the Black Iron Ore Vein against the Twelve Fiends, then joined the battle outside and killed a powerful Fifth Layer Life and Death Realm enemy. The Sword Fiend Evil Lord fled, pursued by Xia Wuji’s golden corpse sword puppet and Bai Ye.

• Xia Wuji used the golden corpse sword puppet to kill the fifth-tier superior Formation Master and dismantle the formation, while Bai Ye struck the Sword Fiend Evil Lord and forced him to flee.
• Xia Wuji told Bai Ye that the sword puppet had locked onto the Sword Fiend Evil Lord’s aura, and Bai Ye joined its pursuit as Xia Wuji left the mine.
• Xia Wuji mounted Pengfei and entered the battle outside, where Pengfei killed a peak Yin Yang Realm enemy and rescued Zhang Sheng from a great hammer strike.
• A Fifth Layer Life and Death Realm fighter charged Xia Wuji, but Xia Wuji trapped him with a formation, wounded him with four flying swords, and beheaded him with the True Martial Sword Art.

Xia Wuji exposed a Seven Kill Hall Silver Rank Assassin during the battle and used his mastery of the Mysterious Killing Dao to make the assassin submit. After learning that Zhou Da had sent the assassin to kill him, Xia Wuji spared him and began plotting how to deal with Zhou Da.

• Xia Wuji controlled the battle with his formation while Zhang Sheng led the Sun Moon Sect’s counterattack against the Twelve Fiends.
• A Seven Kill Hall Silver Rank Assassin ambushed Xia Wuji, but Xia Wuji revealed his Mysterious Killing Dao and lured the assassin away from the battlefield.
• Xia Wuji subdued the assassin in the barren mountains, and the assassin explained that Zhou Da had hired him to kill Xia Wuji.
• Xia Wuji spared the assassin, who identified himself as Blood Thorn, and told him to follow his plan for dealing with Zhou Da.

Zhou Da learned that Xia Wuji had been captured and went to meet Blood Thorn, hoping to obtain the Yin Yang Spirit Martial Art and kill him. Xia Wuji revealed that Blood Thorn served him, killed Zhou Da, and sent the assassin to wait at the Seven Kill Hall’s secret stronghold in Qing City while he prepared to take greater control of the organization.

• Zhou Da learned that Xia Wuji was being pursued after an ambush and pretended to organize a search while secretly celebrating his apparent downfall.
• Blood Thorn told Zhou Da that Xia Wuji was alive and offered to hand him over in exchange for the secret of the Yin Yang Spirit Martial Art.
• Zhou Da left Qing City and met Blood Thorn at an abandoned Daoist temple, where he revealed his plans to extract Xia Wuji’s secrets.
• Blood Thorn stabbed Zhou Da, destroyed his dantian, and then knelt before Xia Wuji, who emerged from the temple.
• Xia Wuji identified himself as the Sun Moon Sect’s Main Altar Holy Son and killed Zhou Da with his flying sword.
• Blood Thorn dissolved Zhou Da’s corpse and handed his Storage Ring to Xia Wuji, who ordered him to wait at the Seven Kill Hall’s secret stronghold in Qing City.

After surviving the Twelve Fiends’ attack, Xia Wuji returned safely to the Sun Moon Spirit Market and received a Heaven Building Spirit Pill from the Pill Pagoda. Luo Chuan then told him that Azure Province’s powers planned to unite against the Twelve Fiends.

• Xia Wuji told Bai Ye how he escaped the peak Life and Death Realm expert’s assassination attempt, and Bai Ye confirmed that the Sword Fiend Evil Lord had been killed with the Golden Corpse Sword Puppet’s help.
• Bai Ye urged Xia Wuji to repay the Pill Pagoda for sending people to search for him, so Xia Wuji visited as the Sun Moon Sect’s Main Altar Holy Son.
• Luo Chuan welcomed Xia Wuji, gave him a Sixth Grade Upper Rank Heaven Building Spirit Pill, and warned him to be more careful after the Twelve Fiends’ attack.
• Xia Wuji said Zhou Da was reportedly dead after encountering an expert among the Twelve Fiends, though he was still investigating the report.
• Luo Chuan revealed that he and the Lord of the True Dragon Hall had decided to form a Fiend Extermination Alliance with Azure Province’s three great sects and righteous cultivators.

After learning that Azure Prefecture was preparing to form the Fiend Extermination Alliance, Xia Wuji strengthened his allies and stockpiled supplies as war approached. He entered seclusion to cultivate, determined to kill Soul Fiend Evil Lord and complete his mother’s trial in Yin Mountain.

• Luo Chuan told Xia Wuji that the Fiend Extermination Alliance was likely to form and that Azure Prefecture would soon be engulfed in conflict.
• Xia Wuji taught Lin Piaoxue the first steps of the Yin Yang Spirit Martial Art and agreed to bring Wen Shanshan from the Azure Star Academy for safety.
• Xia Wuji ordered Lin Meng, Zhang Sheng, and Zhu Songming to increase production and withhold surplus pills, talismans, and spirit weapons from sale.
• News spread that Bai Ye had killed Sword Fiend Evil Lord, Zhou Da had died during the supposed rescue attempt, and Li Yaozu had become the True Dragon Hall’s Young Hall Master.
• Xia Wuji entrusted the Sun Moon Spirit Market to Bai Ye, entered cultivation, and swallowed the Sixth Grade Upper Rank Heaven Building Spirit Pill.

Xia Wuji advanced to the Yin Yang Realm Second Layer, refined his Seven Emotions Flying Swords, and met with Ren Tianxing about the Fiend Extermination Alliance. The next morning, he accompanied Ren Tianxing to the True Dragon Hall, where sect leaders and their rising talents would discuss the alliance.

• Xia Wuji absorbed Luo Chuan’s Heaven Building Spirit Pill, reached the Yin Yang Realm Second Layer, and refined his fifth Seven Emotions Flying Sword, Lonely Cry.
• Bai Ye summoned Xia Wuji to meet Ren Tianxing, who inspected the Sword Puppet and praised Xia Wuji’s achievements at the Sun Moon Spirit Market.
• Ren Tianxing told Xia Wuji that he, Lin Bin, and Huang Bo would visit the True Dragon Hall to discuss the Fiend Extermination Alliance, and that Xia Wuji would join them.
• Xia Wuji visited Lin Piaoxue, helped her break through to the Yin Yang Realm Third Layer, and gave her the Yin Yang Mirror.
• The next morning, Ren Tianxing told Xia Wuji that rising talents from the Sky Eagle Sect and Myriad Law Sect would also attend, then took him to the True Dragon Hall.

Xia Wuji accompanied Ren Tianxing to the True Dragon Hall, where the leaders of Qingzhou’s major factions gathered to discuss forming a Fiend Extermination Alliance. Before the meeting began, Hall Master Li Miaozhen sent Xia Wuji and three other young talents to receive a baptism in the Dragon Transformation River.

• Ren Tianxing and Xia Wuji arrived at the True Dragon Hall and were welcomed by Vice Hall Master Yang Hannan.
• Xia Wuji entered the hall with Ren Tianxing, met Li Miaozhen and Luo Chuan, and exchanged a barbed greeting with Hu Hai.
• Ren Tianxing and Lin Bin argued until Li Miaozhen and Luo Chuan urged them to set aside their feud and focus on Qingzhou’s stability.
• Li Miaozhen announced that the True Dragon Hall had opened the Dragon Transformation River for Xia Wuji, Mu Lan, Hu Hai, and Lin Shuang'er.
• Qin Lie invited the four young talents to follow him to the Dragon Transformation River for their baptism.

Xia Wuji, Mu Lan, Hu Hai, and Lin Shuang'er entered the True Dragon Hall’s Dragon Transformation River secret realm to test their strength against its powerful current and learn about the Dragon Qi’s benefits. After Qin Lie explained the challenge, all four stepped onto the river and surged upstream.

• Qin Lie explained that reaching the Dragon Transformation Gate within an hour could grant True Dragon Hall disciples access to the Dragon Transformation Art, while outsiders could receive Dragon Qi that strengthened their bodies and might improve their aptitudes.
• Lin Shuang'er revealed her close connection to Li Yaozu and asked about his closed-door cultivation, prompting Qin Lie to respond more attentively to her.
• Qin Lie led the group into the secret realm, where Xia Wuji used his Spiritual Eye Technique to spot the stone Dragon Transformation Gate above the distant waterfall.
• Hu Hai, Lin Shuang'er, Mu Lan, and Xia Wuji each stepped onto the turbulent Dragon Transformation River despite its heavy, forceful waves.
• At Qin Lie’s signal, all four shot upstream to begin the challenge.

Xia Wuji outpaced Lin Shuang'er and Hu Hai while crossing the Dragon Transformation River, then reached the waterfall with the others. After Qin Lie explained the rules for ascending it, Hu Hai went first, determined to reclaim his pride.

• Xia Wuji passed Lin Shuang'er on the river, and she lost focus and fell into the water.
• Hu Hai used his Yuan Force wings to surge ahead, but Xia Wuji’s four flying swords redirected the river’s waves and knocked Hu Hai into the water.
• Xia Wuji reached the waterfall first, where Qin Lie praised his movement technique; Hu Hai and Lin Shuang'er arrived afterward and challenged him over the climb.
• Qin Lie explained that the competitors had to ascend the waterfall one at a time, relying on their own abilities and sensing Dragon Qi.
• Hu Hai entered the waterfall first, manifesting a Blood Clawed Grey Eagle and charging upward with the Sky Eagle Great Law.

Hu Hai and Lin Shuang'er attempted to climb the waterfall toward the Dragon Transformation Gate, but both stopped short of their goals. Xia Wuji prepared to make his own ascent, hoping to obtain pure Dragon Qi and learn the Soaring Dragon Steps.

• Hu Hai charged up the waterfall, pushed past two thousand three hundred zhang, and was knocked into the pool when his eagle phantom shattered.
• Mu Lan praised Xia Wuji's prediction, and Xia Wuji sarcastically complimented Hu Hai, who angrily defended his ascent.
• Lin Shuang'er climbed to one thousand nine hundred fifty zhang, then stopped at a nearby stone platform to absorb energy from the waterfall.
• Mu Lan invited Xia Wuji to go next, and he approached the waterfall intending to reach the Dragon Transformation Gate and obtain pure Dragon Qi.

Xia Wuji climbed the waterfall, sensed and seized a faint trace of Dragon Qi, and reached the Dragon Transformation Gate. Hu Hai lost his wager with Mu Lan, while Xia Wuji’s entry caused the Dragon Carving above the True Dragon Hall to come alive.

• Xia Wuji steadily climbed the waterfall while searching for the faint Dragon Qi, passing fifteen hundred zhang as Hu Hai mocked him and Mu Lan wagered a Pure Origin Great Return Pill against Hu Hai’s promise to eat a bluestone.
• Xia Wuji reached one thousand nine hundred and forty-five zhang and stopped, prompting Lin Shuang'er and Hu Hai to believe he could climb no farther.
• Xia Wuji sensed a hidden strand of Dragon Qi, drew it into his hand, and climbed ten zhang past Lin Shuang'er before speeding upward as sword light.
• Qin Lie declared that Xia Wuji had captured the Dragon Qi’s trajectory and would reach the summit, leaving Hu Hai stunned.
• Xia Wuji reached the three-thousand-zhang summit and entered the Dragon Transformation Gate, causing the Dragon Carving above the True Dragon Hall to soar into the sky with Dragon Might.

Xia Wuji received the Dragon Transformation Gate’s Dragon Qi baptism, then overpowered its dragon-soul phantom and claimed a connection to Lin Long. He demanded that the phantom keep giving him Dragon Qi until he said to stop.

• The divine dragon statue above the True Dragon Hall reacted, and Li Miaozhen led the gathered sect leaders to see who had entered the Dragon Transformation Gate.
• Xia Wuji recognized the dragon-soul origin within the gate and absorbed its Dragon Qi, strengthening his body and resolving strain from his recent cultivation breakthrough.
• When the phantom tried to stop the baptism, Xia Wuji resisted its Dragon Might with Sword Intent and seized it using the Dragon Capturing Hand.
• The phantom recognized the technique, and Xia Wuji told it that Lin Long had taught him the move and that he could help heal its origin injury so it could ascend to the Upper Realm.
• Xia Wuji asked for more Dragon Qi, telling the phantom to stop only when he said so.

Xia Wuji absorbed Dragon Qi inside the Dragon Transformation Gate while the other cultivators and sect leaders waited below the waterfall. After he emerged, Lin Bin and Huang Bo questioned whether he had gained anything, and Xia Wuji agreed to have his Dragon Qi measured.

• The divine dragon phantom continued supplying Xia Wuji with Dragon Qi until its form grew hazy.
• Lin Shuang'er descended from the waterfall after Qin Lie explained that the Dragon Qi was flowing toward Xia Wuji, while Hu Hai looked ashamed and worried.
• Huang Bo and Lin Bin arrived and realized Xia Wuji, rather than Hu Hai or Lin Shuang'er, had entered the Dragon Transformation Gate.
• Qin Lie confirmed that Xia Wuji had reached the summit in less than fifteen minutes, prompting Ren Tianxing to celebrate and Lin Bin to mock him.
• Xia Wuji emerged from the Dragon Transformation Gate, and Lin Bin and Huang Bo claimed he had absorbed little Dragon Qi because he had left so quickly.
• Xia Wuji agreed to let the True Dragon Hall test how much Dragon Qi he had absorbed.

Xia Wuji tested his Dragon Qi and astonished the gathered sect leaders by reaching the True Dragon Hall’s highest Qingzhou rating in moments. Li Miaozhen rewarded him with Dragon Origin Pills and announced the Azure Cloud Competition, which would culminate in the public formation of the Fiend Extermination Alliance.

• Xia Wuji agreed to test his Dragon Qi, and Li Miaozhen gave him the Dragon Spirit Jade and explained its five-claw scale.
• Xia Wuji made the jade’s dragon shadow manifest one claw, then a second, silencing Lin Bin’s mockery and shocking the onlookers.
• Xia Wuji’s dragon shadow manifested a third claw, matching the highest level Li Miaozhen could achieve, before he cut off the test.
• Li Miaozhen offered Xia Wuji three Dragon Origin Pills to help him refine his abundant Dragon Qi, and he accepted them.
• Li Miaozhen announced that Qingzhou’s leaders would hold the Azure Cloud Competition and announce the Fiend Extermination Alliance when its champion was crowned.

After the Dragon Transformation Gate, the leaders planned the Azure Cloud Competition as cover while they prepared to form the Fiend Extermination Alliance against the Twelve Fiends. Xia Wuji returned to the Sun Moon Spirit Market to cultivate and secretly take control of the Seven Kill Hall's stronghold in Qing City.

• Li Miaozhen told the leaders to arrange the Azure Cloud Competition, which they would use to buy time to prepare the Fiend Extermination Alliance.
• Mu Lan revealed her wager contract with Hu Hai, and Luo Chuan ruled that Hu Hai could satisfy it by eating one bite of bluestone.
• Hu Hai swallowed a chunk of bluestone before Huang Bo took him away, while Lin Bin also departed with Lin Shuang'er.
• Luo Chuan urged Ren Tianxing to prepare for Qingzhou's coming upheaval and advised Xia Wuji to refine his Dragon Qi with the three Dragon Origin Pills.
• Ren Tianxing told Xia Wuji he only expected him to reach the Azure Cloud Competition's top ten and said he could skip the preliminary contests as Main Altar Holy Son.
• Xia Wuji chose to remain at the Sun Moon Spirit Market so he could cultivate and take control of the Seven Kill Hall's stronghold in Qing City.

Li Miaozhen and Yang Hannan learned that the dragon soul had chosen to help Xia Wuji, while Lin Bin plotted to turn the Sky Eagle Sect against the Sun Moon Sect and aid Lin Shuang'er in the Azure Cloud Competition. After Hu Hai’s humiliation fueled rumors and political maneuvering, Xia Wuji began refining Dragon Origin Pills with the Dragon Transformation Art.

• The dragon soul told Li Miaozhen and Yang Hannan that it had given Xia Wuji a fortuitous opportunity and instructed True Dragon Hall to take care of him.
• Lin Bin encouraged Lin Shuang'er to pursue the Life and Death Realm and revealed a plan to use Hu Hai’s humiliating stone-eating scene to worsen relations between the Sky Eagle Sect and the Sun Moon Sect.
• The recording of Hu Hai eating bluestone spread across Azure City, making him a laughingstock while rumors praised Xia Wuji as an unparalleled talent.
• Hu Hai vomited blood from anger, and Huang Bo urged him to regain his pride at the Azure Cloud Competition; Hu Hai proposed that the Sky Eagle Sect ally with Myriad Law Sect.
• Ren Tianxing returned to the Sun Moon Sect to prepare for the Azure Cloud Competition and the Fiend Extermination Alliance, while Xia Wuji swallowed three Dragon Origin Pills and cultivated the Dragon Transformation Art.

Xia Wuji refined the Dragon Qi, mastered the first three killing steps of the Soaring Dragon Steps, and advanced to the Yin Yang Realm Third Layer. After hearing reports of growing tensions in Azure City, he left the Sun Moon Spirit Market alone and entered a secret realm through a hidden passage.

• Xia Wuji refined all the Dragon Qi and reached minor mastery of the Dragon Transformation Art.
• Xia Wuji tested the Soaring Dragon Steps, used the first three steps of the Nine Steps to Heaven, and stopped before his right leg was injured by a fourth step.
• Xia Wuji advanced to the Yin Yang Realm Third Layer and decided to visit Pagoda Master Luo alone.
• Zhang Sheng reported that the Sky Eagle Sect and Myriad Law Sect were meeting frequently and might join forces, but Xia Wuji told the Sun Moon Sect to respond only if provoked.
• Xia Wuji left the Sun Moon Spirit Market alone, evaded watchers, and entered a blood-red passage that led to a secret realm filled with killing intent.

Xia Wuji arrived at the Seven Kill Hall stronghold in Qing City and used the seventh layer of the Mysterious Killing Dao to subdue its killers. After defeating Tu Xin, he made Jiang Wuming recognize him as Jiang Zhiyuan’s successor, and the Young Hall Master bowed to him as Martial Uncle.

• Blood Thorn told Xia Wuji that 236 killers had gathered in the secret realm, then led him toward the stronghold’s gathered assassins.
• Xia Wuji’s killing aura forced Blood Thorn to his knees and revealed the assembled killers, including Tu Xin and Jiang Wuming.
• Jiang Wuming called Xia Wuji an impostor and ordered several Silver Killers to attack, but Xia Wuji suppressed them with the seventh layer of the Mysterious Killing Dao.
• Tu Xin attacked Xia Wuji with his curved blade, but Xia Wuji shattered his strike, wounded him with flying swords, and pinned him beneath his foot.
• Jiang Wuming realized Xia Wuji was Jiang Zhiyuan’s successor and apologized, addressing him as Martial Uncle.

Xia Wuji subdued the Qing City branch of the Seven Kill Hall and forced Jiang Wuming to accept his authority. After Jiang Wuming left, Xia Wuji prepared to use the assassins as a powerful force operating in the shadows.

• Jiang Wuming recognized Xia Wuji as his Martial Uncle, apologized, and ordered the Seven Kill Hall assassins to show him respect.
• Xia Wuji pardoned the kneeling assassins and refused Jiang Wuming’s request for cultivation guidance, saying he had only cultivated the sixth layer of the Mysterious Killing Dao.
• Jiang Wuming asked about Jiang Zhiyuan and tried to assess Xia Wuji’s inheritance, but Xia Wuji told him to leave and claimed full authority over the Qing City Seven Kill Hall forces for several days.
• Jiang Wuming departed after agreeing, while Xia Wuji realized that he and Jiang Fan might resist being controlled.
• Xia Wuji summoned Gold Killer Tu Xin and eighteen Silver Killers, establishing the Seven Kill Hall forces as a shadow force at his disposal.

Xia Wuji won the assassins’ loyalty by using the seventh layer of the Mysterious Killing Dao to strengthen and heal them, then ordered Tu Xin to purge disloyal members and prepare a new hideout. A commission targeting Wen Shanshan arrived, and Xia Wuji ordered the assassins to accept it.

• Xia Wuji placed killing-intent seals on the assassins, improving their cultivation and protecting them from suppression by practitioners one layer above them.
• Xia Wuji demanded the assassins’ loyalty, and Tu Xin and the Silver Killers pledged to serve him alone.
• Xia Wuji ordered Tu Xin to find spies and promised to teach him the sixth layer of the Mysterious Killing Dao if he succeeded.
• Tu Xin explained the assassins’ operations, and Xia Wuji instructed him to establish a new hideout near the Sun Moon Spirit Market within half a month.
• Tu Xin received a commission targeting Wen Shanshan, and Xia Wuji destroyed the confidential letter and ordered him to accept the commission.