Chapter Summaries

Xia Wuji chose the Wrathful Sea Sword Art and traveled with Yao Xi toward Ghost Sword Island, where she explained the island's rules and her complicated relationships with her senior sisters. As they neared the island, Yao Xi's third senior sister's ship charged toward theirs, prompting Yao Xi to accuse her of stirring up trouble.

• Xia Wuji accepted the sealed Wrathful Sea Sword Art inheritance, and Yao Xi arranged for Li Hai to accompany him to Ghost Sword Island.
• Xia Wuji, Yao Xi, Li Hai, Jiang Zhiyuan, and Pengfei departed for Ghost Sword Island aboard Yao Xi's Spirit Ship.
• Yao Xi told Xia Wuji that he could not become her master's disciple and warned him about Ghost Sword Island's rules and her three senior sisters.
• After two days, Xia Wuji and Yao Xi sighted Ghost Sword Island, but a ship approached theirs at high speed.
• Yao Xi recognized the approaching ship as her third senior sister's and said she was trying to stir up trouble.

Yao Xi brought Xia Wuji toward Ghost Sword Island and clashed with her third senior sister, Zhao Qingyue, who mocked Xia Wuji’s cultivation and challenged his status as a genius. The rivals agreed to wager Xia Wuji’s seven days in the Sword Prison Space and a seventh-grade peak-rank Spirit Sword, and Zhao Qingyue’s junior brother Liao stepped forward to fight him.

• Yao Xi ordered her Spirit Ship to charge Zhao Qingyue’s ship, but Zhao Qingyue turned away before they collided.
• Yao Xi and Zhao Qingyue traded insults, and Yao Xi introduced Xia Wuji as the first-place examination finisher she had recruited.
• A qi-observing technique revealed Xia Wuji’s third-layer Life and Death Realm cultivation, prompting Zhao Qingyue to ridicule him and boast about her two fifth-layer Nirvana Realm recruits.
• Yao Xi insisted Xia Wuji had taken first place and challenged Zhao Qingyue after Zhao tried to prevent him from entering Ghost Sword Island.
• Yao Xi and Zhao Qingyue wagered Xia Wuji’s seven Sword Prison Space days and a seventh-grade peak-rank Spirit Sword, and Liao drew his sword to challenge Xia Wuji.

Xia Wuji defeated Liao Linfeng with his Seven Swords Flying Together, winning Yao Xi seven days in the Sword Prison Space and a Seventh-Rank Top-Grade Spirit Sword. Zhao Qingyue challenged him to a second match with a two-million-Spirit-Crystal wager, and Wang Xiang began his attack.

• Liao Linfeng challenged Xia Wuji, but Xia's seven flying swords shattered his sword-light attack, disarmed him, and forced him to surrender.
• Yao Xi claimed the promised seven days in the Sword Prison Space and the Seventh-Rank Top-Grade Spirit Sword from Zhao Qingyue, then gave the sword to Xia Wuji.
• Zhao Qingyue demanded another match and wagered two million Spirit Crystals; Xia Wuji agreed to split the winnings with Yao Xi.
• Wang Xiang challenged Xia Wuji, claiming he knew how to counter the flying swords, and launched a sweeping sword attack.

Xia Wuji defeated Wang Xiang and discovered a hidden seal inside him, then helped Yao Xi expose him as a Kun Gate mole. As Yao Xi took Wang Xiang back to Ghost Sword Island on Sword Rakshasa's orders, Zhao Qingyue feared her master now suspected her, while Yao Xi resolved to cultivate Xia Wuji as a trusted aide.

• Xia Wuji detected a hidden seal in Wang Xiang and defeated him with his seven merged flying swords, then captured him and secured the two million Spirit Crystals Zhao Qingyue owed.
• Xia Wuji secretly told Yao Xi how to undo Wang Xiang's seal, and Yao Xi exposed it after taunting Zhao Qingyue.
• Wang Xiang's seal released Kun Power, revealing him as a Kun Gate mole, and Sword Rakshasa's sword strike wounded him before ordering Yao Xi to bring him back.
• Zhao Qingyue feared Sword Rakshasa suspected her, while Yao Xi departed for Ghost Sword Island and decided Xia Wuji could become her trusted aide.

Yao Xi and Zhao Qingyue reported the Kun Gate spy incident to Sword Rakshasa, who punished both disciples while rewarding Yao Xi with a rare sword technique. Yao Xi then tried to persuade her master to trust Xia Wuji, but Sword Rakshasa remained suspicious of his extraordinary talent.

• Yao Xi took the wounded Wang Xiang to meet Sword Rakshasa, while Li Dong led Xia Wuji and his companions to a place to wait.
• Zhao Qingyue reported the assessment incident, and Sword Rakshasa judged her innocent of complicity but confined her for one month for negligence.
• Yao Xi asked Sword Rakshasa to promote her over Zhao Qingyue, claiming credit for exposing the spy and bringing back Xia Wuji.
• Sword Rakshasa ordered Yao Xi into confinement until she reached the tenth level of the Nirvana Realm and gained entry-level mastery of a Heaven Grade Middle Rank sword technique, which she gave her as a reward.
• Yao Xi urged Sword Rakshasa to take Xia Wuji seriously, but Sword Rakshasa questioned how such an exceptional genius could have come from the Lower Domain.

Xia Wuji settled into Ghost Sword Island, learned its rules, and went to the Materials Hall to collect his monthly resources. He discovered that the hall had replaced his supplies with worthless goods, and the chapter ended with an attendant striking Li Hai and ordering them to leave.

• Li Dong registered Xia Wuji and Li Hai, arranged their residences, and explained Xia Wuji's monthly resources.
• Xia Wuji cultivated overnight and advanced to the fourth level of the Life and Death Realm while unseen watchers continued to observe him.
• Li Hai told Xia Wuji about Ghost Sword Island's facilities, missions, and Yao Xi's limited support, then led him to the Materials Hall.
• A Materials Hall attendant switched Xia Wuji and Li Hai's resource bags after Li Hai confirmed the receipt, leaving them with used Spirit Crystals and no pills.
• The attendant slapped Li Hai when he protested, and Xia Wuji caught him before the attendant demanded that they leave.

Xia Wuji confronted Zhang Xuan after the Materials Hall withheld his and Li Hai’s cultivation resources, then defeated him brutally with the Seven Swords Flying Together. He left Zhang Xuan buried in the ground, asking how it felt to pay the price.

• Li Hai urged Xia Wuji to leave the Materials Hall and offered him his own share of the resources.
• Xia Wuji exposed the damaged Spirit Crystals Zhang Xuan had given them and demanded their full allotment, prompting onlookers to discuss the Materials Hall’s deductions.
• Zhang Xuan accused Xia Wuji and Li Hai of framing him, then attacked Xia Wuji with the Mountain Connecting Sword Art.
• Xia Wuji shattered Zhang Xuan’s sword strike with the Seven Swords Flying Together and severed both of his arms.
• Xia Wuji stomped Zhang Xuan into the ground and asked him how it felt.

Xia Wuji confronted Zhang Xuan over the Materials Hall’s substitution of worn Yuan Crystals, but Zhang Xuan was killed by a sword attack from inside the hall. Yue Ping tried to attack Xia Wuji, but the Disciplinary Hall intervened and took everyone involved away, while an old man warned his granddaughter that their faction could not easily switch sides.

• Xia Wuji kicked and threatened Zhang Xuan as Li Hai demanded to know why the cultivation resources had been replaced with worn Yuan Crystals.
• An attack from inside the Materials Hall exploded beside Xia Wuji and Li Hai, killing the buried Zhang Xuan.
• Yue Ping emerged, claimed Xia Wuji and Li Hai had caused his junior brother’s death, and attacked Xia Wuji with his sword.
• Lian Tianye blocked Yue Ping’s attack and ordered the Disciplinary Hall to take Xia Wuji, Li Hai, and Yue Ping in for questioning.
• An old man told his granddaughter that Lian Tianye had acted under the island master’s orders and warned her that their faction could not abandon its current alliance.

Xia Wuji learned about the Sword Prison Space while awaiting the outcome of the Disciplinary Hall investigation. After the Hall released him and Li Hai, the two headed straight for the Sword Prison Space.

• Li Hai explained that the Sword Prison Space held fierce sword intent and could contain inheritance imprints, including the Sunflower Sword Art Yue Ping had absorbed.
• Xia Wuji decided the Sword Prison Space could help temper his Sword Seed and condense Sword Essence.
• Lian Tianye released Xia Wuji and Li Hai, returning the resources Zhang Xuan had taken from them.
• Lian Tianye said Yue Ping would receive minor punishment for killing Zhang Xuan, while Xia Wuji thanked him and agreed to spar another time.
• The Disciplinary Hall master told Lian Tianye that they needed to keep observing Xia Wuji.
• Xia Wuji and Li Hai went directly to the Sword Prison Space.

Xia Wuji entered the Sword Prison Space and used its sharp aura to advance his cultivation while studying the Wrathful Sea Sword Art. Three men then approached, planning to lure him into a fight at the Sword Discussion Platform under the pretense of giving him pointers.

• Xia Wuji gave Li Hai the cultivation resources and instructed him to contact Yao Xi’s remaining allies and seek their help if trouble arose.
• Xia Wuji entered the first level of the Sword Prison Space, where the sharp aura resonated with his Sword Essence and improved his cultivation.
• After three days of cultivating, Xia Wuji advanced from the fourth to the fifth level of the Life and Death Realm.
• Xia Wuji studied the Heavenly Grade Lower Rank Wrathful Sea Sword Art to learn Purgatory sword techniques and conceal his own methods.
• Three men approached Xia Wuji and offered to point out moves in the Wrathful Sea Sword Art, intending to provoke him into going to the Sword Discussion Platform.

Xia Wuji accepted Feng Wei and his companions’ supposed offer to guide him in swordsmanship, knowing the Sword Prison Space’s rules would let him fight back. After Zhu Biao’s attack was arranged on the Sword Discussion Platform, Xia Wuji killed him with one strike and challenged the next man to step forward.

• Feng Wei lured Xia Wuji onto the Sword Discussion Platform and arranged three rounds of sword exchanges under rules that restricted Xia Wuji to the Wrathful Sea Sword Art.
• Xia Wuji entered the platform despite Du Tianbao’s warning, while Feng Wei and his companions revealed their intent to harm him and spectators gathered to watch.
• Zhu Biao entered the platform and threatened to sever Xia Wuji’s arm, explaining that casualties were allowed there.
• Xia Wuji used the Wrathful Sea Sword Art’s opening stance, Raging Waves, and killed Zhu Biao with a single sword strike.
• Xia Wuji stood beside Zhu Biao’s corpse and called for the next opponent to come up and die.

Xia Wuji killed Zhu Biao, Liu Chuan, and Feng Wei with the Wrathful Sea Sword Art, revealing that his mastery exceeded what the onlookers had believed. After Feng Wei’s defeat, the Sword Discussion Platform blazed with light, and Feng Xuan realized the Sword Rakshasa had caused it.

• Xia Wuji killed Zhu Biao with the Wrathful Sea Sword Art’s Surging Waves, astonishing the spectators and the officials watching from Ghost Sword Island.
• Liu Chuan challenged Xia Wuji with Splitting Light Thirty-Two Swords, but Xia Wuji’s Surging Waves destroyed his sword qi and killed him.
• Du Tianbao urged Feng Wei to withdraw, but Feng Wei refused and entered the Sword Discussion Platform to avenge his junior brothers.
• Feng Wei unleashed Wrath of the Sea God, but Xia Wuji’s stronger version shattered Feng Wei’s attack and sent him flying.
• Xia Wuji crushed Feng Wei’s head, then the platform’s array light blazed; Feng Xuan recognized the Sword Rakshasa was behind the phenomenon.

Xia Wuji passed Sword Rakshasa’s test, earned the opening move of the Ghostly Sword Art, and continued cultivating in the Sword Prison Space. After eight days, a sword dao inheritance imprint appeared, and Du Tianbao hurried him toward the Sword Discussion Platform.

• Sword Rakshasa trapped Xia Wuji in a cage of sword qi to test his talent, and Xia Wuji unraveled it in half an hour.
• Sword Rakshasa rewarded Xia Wuji with Ghostly Formless Strike and suspected he had the Sword Heart Illuminated constitution, but ordered Feng Xuan to keep observing him.
• Xia Wuji collected the Storage Rings from the three corpses, dismissed questions about the blinding light, and returned to cultivating while Du Tianbao kept watch nearby.
• After eight days, Xia Wuji refined his fifth-layer Life and Death Realm cultivation to saturation and saw the Sword Discussion Platform tremble.
• Du Tianbao told Xia Wuji that a sword dao inheritance imprint had appeared and urged him to hurry over for a good spot.

Xia Wuji and Du Tianbao entered the Sword Discussion Platform to seek a sword inheritance imprint, but Fang Zi targeted them and launched an attack before one appeared. As Du Tianbao fought off attackers, another assailant closed in on Xia Wuji, whom everyone believed had been poisoned.

• Xia Wuji paid two thousand Spirit Crystals with Du Tianbao to enter the Sword Discussion Platform, where Du Tianbao explained the risks and limits of absorbing sword inheritance imprints.
• Du Tianbao warned Xia Wuji that Fang Zi, a Nirvana Realm Seventh Layer fighter, might attack them, and Fang Zi mocked Du Tianbao's claims that he could match her.
• Fang Zi sent a poisoned silver spike at Xia Wuji, who caught it between two fingers, and she claimed her poison would rot him if he used his essence force.
• Fang Zi ordered two Nirvana Realm Sixth Layer fighters to attack Xia Wuji and Du Tianbao, while Du Tianbao urged Xia Wuji to escape the platform.
• Du Tianbao blocked the two fighters, but another attacker lunged at Xia Wuji with a Spirit Sword aimed at his neck.

Xia Wuji survived Fang Zi’s poison and burned her Soul Devouring Worms before killing four more attackers with the Wrathful Sea Sword Art. After Du Tianbao withdrew and Fang Zi prepared her strongest sword technique, Xia Wuji faced her alone on the Sword Discussion Platform.

• Xia Wuji evaded an attacker’s sword and killed him with a poisoned silver nail, then dismissed Fang Zi’s claim that he had resisted her poison through a treasure.
• Fang Zi unleashed Soul Devouring Worms, but Xia Wuji burned them with Heavenly Fire and the Sky Burning Art.
• Fang Zi attacked Xia Wuji with the Spirit Snake Sword while four other martial artists joined in; Xia Wuji used three moves of the Wrathful Sea Sword Art to kill all four.
• Fang Zi wounded Du Tianbao, who withdrew from the Sword Discussion Platform and explained that he had done his best to help Xia Wuji.
• Fang Zi invoked Shadow Flow Three: Absolute, sending the three-headed sea serpent phantom to attack Xia Wuji.

Xia Wuji killed Fang Zi with his seven flying swords, claimed the quasi-Heaven-grade Heavy Water Sword Art inheritance, and refused Dugu Ming’s attempt to buy it. The chapter ended with Dugu Ming threatening Xia Wuji after he absorbed the inheritance.

• Xia Wuji’s seven flying swords cut apart Fang Zi’s attack and killed her, convincing the Sword Discussion Platform that he was its strongest fighter.
• Du Tianbao gave Xia Wuji the Storage Rings from Fang Zi and the others, while several other cultivators left or kept their distance.
• Four sword-dao inheritance imprints appeared, and Xia Wuji claimed the quasi-Heaven-grade Heavy Water Sword Art imprint as others competed for the three Earth-grade imprints.
• Du Tianbao brought an Earth-grade inheritance imprint to Xia Wuji for protection, and two pursuers abandoned their attempt to take it.
• Dugu Ming offered Xia Wuji up to 180,000 Spirit Crystals for the Heavy Water Sword Art and silenced Du Tianbao with a silver needle, but Xia Wuji absorbed the imprint instead.
• Dugu Ming threatened Xia Wuji after he refused the trade and absorbed the Heavy Water Sword Art.

Xia Wuji completed his cultivation in the Sword Prison Space and returned to find that Jiang Zhiyuan and Li Hai were away on assessments. Sunflower Sword Yue Ping then stormed into his residence and tried to seize Pengfei, forcing Xia Wuji to draw his sword.

• Xia Wuji rejected Dugu Ming's attempt to pressure him, freed Du Tianbao from a Throat Sealing Needle, and learned that Yao Xi had ordered her followers to secure the Heavy Water Sword Art's inheritance.
• Du Tianbao absorbed the Heavy Water Sword Art imprint while Xia Wuji guarded him, then Xia Wuji returned to cultivating and reached the peak of the sixth level of the Life and Death Realm after his twenty-one days in the Sword Prison Space.
• Pengfei told Xia Wuji that Jiang Zhiyuan and Li Hai had left to complete Purgatory assessments, while Li Dong and the warriors on his Emergency Mission had been killed by Hengtian Sect.
• Yue Ping barged into Xia Wuji's courtyard, claimed he was investigating spies, and announced he would take Pengfei away; Xia Wuji refused and drew the Jinghong Sword as seven swords flew together.

Xia Wuji took Pengfei to Beast Heart Island to undergo Purgatory’s recognition trial after Huang Ming drove Yue Ping and his men away. As Xia Wuji and Pengfei entered the trial grounds, Gu Duming arrived with a grudge and planned to make Xia Wuji regret offending him.

• Yue Ping tried to take Pengfei, but Huang Ming struck him and forced him to leave.
• Huang Ming explained that Pengfei needed to pass a trial on Beast Heart Island to gain official recognition and avoid being used against Xia Wuji.
• Huang Ming told Xia Wuji that Yao Xi was advancing in cultivation during her confinement and advised him to pursue his own advancement assessment after Pengfei’s trial.
• Huang Ming brought Xia Wuji, Du Tianbao, and Pengfei to Beast Heart Island, where Xia Wuji paid five hundred Spirit Crystals to enter the trial grounds with Pengfei.
• Gu Duming arrived at Beast Heart Island with his people and vowed to make Xia Wuji regret crossing him.

Xia Wuji entered Beast Heart Island’s beast-taming examination with Pengfei, but Lu Qiang rigged the test with powerful Demon Beasts at Dugu Ming’s request. Xia Wuji refused to withdraw and chose to face the challenge as Dugu Ming watched and taunted him.

• Lu Qiang agreed to help Dugu Ming punish Xia Wuji after Dugu explained their conflict.
• A Rakshasa failed the examination when her Sea Turtle was killed by three Demon Beasts in the testing lake.
• Xia Wuji began his examination with Pengfei, facing a Fifth-Tier Peak eagle, a quasi-Sixth-Tier Giant Squid, and Lu Qiang’s Sixth-Tier Water Monkey.
• Huang Ming and Du Tianbao urged Xia Wuji to withdraw, but he chose to continue rather than leave Pengfei vulnerable outside the waters of Purgatory.
• Lu Qiang revealed that Dugu Ming wanted Xia Wuji to kowtow and acknowledge him as his master, then left the arena after Xia Wuji refused.
• Dugu Ming appeared beside Lu Qiang, made a throat-slitting gesture at Xia Wuji, and told him, “Good luck!”

Xia Wuji’s Pengfei revealed its Golden Winged Great Peng bloodline and dominated the assessment despite the heightened interference and Lu Qiang’s interference. After Pengfei killed the Water Monkey, Xia Wuji’s assessment ended with Dugu Ming’s plot thwarted.

• Dugu Ming and Lu Qiang arranged for the assessment’s mental interference to be raised to Sixth-Tier Low-Grade intensity, but Pengfei calmly began the trial with Xia Wuji.
• Pengfei revealed his golden Roc form, killed the Fifth-Tier Peak eagle, and then severed and killed the quasi-Sixth-Tier Eight-Clawed Giant Squid.
• Lu Qiang’s Water Monkey swallowed Pengfei’s spoils, then entered a berserk state after Lu Qiang used hand seals to strengthen it in violation of the assessment rules.
• Pengfei dodged the Water Monkey’s attacks and repeatedly wounded it with Sky-Splitting Divine Claw and Golden Winged Slash.
• Lu Qiang rushed into the assessment grounds and shouted for Pengfei to stop, but Pengfei beheaded the Water Monkey, leaving Lu Qiang drenched and vomiting blood from their soul contract’s backlash.