Chapter Summaries

Xia Wuji secured Pagoda Master Guo’s invitation for Qin An by impressing him at the Pill Pagoda. When Qin An arrived, Guo Fang publicly rejected Supporting Sky Peak and chose to meet Heaven Inquiry Peak instead.

• Guo Fang asked Xia Wuji to bring Qin An to the Pill Pagoda, and Xia Wuji claimed his natural fire meridian had let him control the Radiant Sun Sacred Fire.
• Xia Wuji exposed the badly injured Shen Ting’s identity outside the Pill Pagoda, leaving Shen Ting humiliated before the crowd.
• Xia Wuji returned to the inn and told Qin An and Qin Yu that Guo Fang wanted to meet Qin An.
• Yang Hong and Hong Fu tried to turn Qin An away at the Pill Pagoda, while Yang Hong mocked Heaven Inquiry Peak.
• Fu Bo announced that Guo Fang would receive Qin An and had refused to see Yang Hong, then led Qin An, Xia Wuji, and Qin Yu inside.

Xia Wuji helped secure a major Alchemy Tower partnership for Heaven Inquiry Peak and stayed behind to assist Guo Fang with the Radiant Sun Sacred Fire. When Qin Hai arrived with news that the Heaven Inquiry Sword had been found in the Soldier's Den, he asked Xia Wuji to return and try to claim it.

• Qin An negotiated with Guo Fang, who gave Heaven Inquiry Peak a Carefree Pill and agreed to supply its pills at a steep discount for a year.
• Xia Wuji stayed at the Alchemy Tower to help Guo Fang refine the Radiant Sun Sacred Fire, while Qin An and Qin Yu returned to Heaven Inquiry Peak.
• Xia Wuji refined ten batches of Hundred Refinement Return Origin Pills during Guo Fang's seclusion.
• Qin Hai came to Spirit Peak City and told Xia Wuji that the Heaven Inquiry Sword had been found in the Soldier's Den.
• Qin Hai asked Xia Wuji to return to the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land and try to bring the Heaven Inquiry Sword back to Heaven Inquiry Peak.

Xia Wuji learned that Zhou Jian had found traces of the Qin Family’s Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword in Soldier’s Den, and he went there to retrieve it before Howling Sky Peak could claim it. After Zhou Dingshan’s people tampered with the entrance restriction, Xia Wuji broke through it with a secret technique and entered Soldier’s Den, where Howling Sky Peak’s challengers could attack him without restraint.

• Qin Hai explained Soldier’s Den’s rules and told Xia Wuji that Zhou Jian had found traces of the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword, prompting Howling Sky Peak to send a group inside.
• Qin Hai and Xia Wuji went to Soldier’s Den, where Qin An urged Xia Wuji to bring the sword back and Zhou Dingshan taunted the Qin Family and claimed the sword for Howling Sky Peak.
• Xia Wuji discovered that the entrance restriction had been tampered with, while Qin Hai learned that Qin An had been lured away by an emergency on Heaven Inquiry Peak.
• Xia Wuji used his Sword Soul and Spirit Reversal Seal to tear open the restriction and enter Soldier’s Den despite Zhou Li warning that he could be killed inside.
• Xia Wuji told the people of Howling Sky Peak that they would regret entering, then flew into Soldier’s Den.

Xia Wuji left his search for the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword to rescue Qin Yu, who had been betrayed and cornered by Howling Sky Peak. He killed Yang Wen and the attackers, then told Qin Yu they would claim the Sacred Sword and try to take out one Sacred Weapon each.

• Xia Wuji tracked the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword’s faint resonance through the Soldier’s Den, then diverted toward nearby fighting to check on Qin Yu.
• Howling Sky Peak’s leader revealed that Yang Wen had betrayed Heaven Inquiry Peak and had exposed Qin Yu’s plan to seize the Sacred Sword.
• Yang Wen bound the wounded Qin Yu and moved to attack her, but Xia Wuji arrived, rescued Qin Yu, and killed Yang Wen.
• The Howling Sky Peak fighters attacked Xia Wuji together, but he blocked their techniques and killed them all within moments.
• Qin Yu said they should have spared someone to investigate Zhou Jian and the Sacred Sword, but Xia Wuji said they would find the weapon themselves and bring one Sacred Weapon each back to the Qin Household.

Xia Wuji reached the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword as Zhou Jian and the Howling Sky Peak martial artists tried to claim it. After killing Zhou Jian and leaving his allies occupied with Qin Yu and the Demon Beasts, Xia Wuji grabbed the sacred sword’s hilt.

• Xia Wuji and Qin Yu saw the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword’s radiance and hurried toward it while Zhou Jian began trying to claim it.
• Zhou Jian activated the Sword Sacrificing Grand Formation, but Xia Wuji arrived with Qin Yu, Pengfei, and Long Teng and attacked.
• Xia Wuji defeated Zhou Jian with the Jinghong Sword and his Sword Soul, then severed Zhou Jian’s head.
• Pengfei, Long Teng, and Qin Yu kept the Howling Sky Peak martial artists and their formation occupied while Xia Wuji approached the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword.
• Xia Wuji stored the Jinghong Sword, grabbed the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword’s hilt, and caused its sword qi and radiance to surge.

Xia Wuji claimed the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword and helped Qin Yu obtain the Heaven Supporting Tablet in the Soldier's Den. Outside, Zhou Dingshan expected Howling Sky Peak to emerge with the sword, but Xia Wuji and Qin Yu appeared instead, and Xia announced that the Howling Sky Peak cultivators were dead as he presented the sacred sword.

• Xia Wuji drew the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword and destroyed the Howling Sky Peak formation, killing everyone controlling it.
• Xia Wuji found the Heaven Supporting Tablet, used his spiritual force to awaken it, and helped Qin Yu take it for Heaven Inquiry Peak.
• Zhou Dingshan boasted to the gathered peaks that Zhou Jian would bring out the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword and mocked Qin Hai and Qin An.
• Xia Wuji and Qin Yu emerged from the Soldier's Den, and Qin Yu told Qin Hai and Qin An that the others from Heaven Inquiry Peak had died.
• Xia Wuji told the gathered crowd that the Howling Sky Peak cultivators were dead, then declared that the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword was present and asked everyone to bear witness.

Xia Wuji returned the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword and the Heaven Supporting Tablet to Heaven Inquiry Peak, strengthening its position against Howling Sky Peak and Supporting Sky Peak. After helping Qin An purge the dark aura from his life origin, Xia Wuji asked about entering the Dark Forbidden Zone to search for the Golden Sea King Sword.

• Xia Wuji revealed the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword, and Qin Hai claimed it for Heaven Inquiry Peak while Zhou Dingshan worried that Zhou Jian had died in the Soldier's Den.
• Qin Yu brought out the Heaven Supporting Tablet, and Qin Hai drove Shen Cong away when he rushed to seize it.
• Qin Hai took Xia Wuji, Qin An, and Qin Yu back to Heaven Inquiry Peak, where he promised Xia Wuji the sacred sword and said the tablet would later be entrusted to him as well.
• Heaven Inquiry Peak held a victory banquet, and Xia Wuji later helped Qin An completely remove the dark aura from his life origin.
• Xia Wuji asked Qin An about the Dark Forbidden Zone and said he wanted to search there for the Golden Sea King Sword, which could open the place where the Heart of the Sea King was hidden.

Xia Wuji learned about the dangers of the Dark Forbidden Zone and decided to wait for an invitation to the Wind and Cloud Rankings so he could join the Wind and Cloud Association’s exploration team. After advancing to the third layer of the Myriad Manifestation Realm, he was summoned by Qin Hai and introduced to Envoy Liao Shan, who had come to invite him to the trial.

• Qin An explained the Dark Forbidden Zone’s dangers, the Dark Kings within it, and the Wind and Cloud Association’s failed campaign to destroy it.
• Qin An told Xia Wuji that the Wind and Cloud Association sought the Dark Law and that its exploration teams accepted Wind and Cloud Rankings challengers.
• Xia Wuji decided to wait for an invitation, believing his victory over Zhou Jian had drawn the Wind and Cloud Association’s attention.
• Xia Wuji cultivated at Howling Sky Peak and broke through to the third layer of the Myriad Manifestation Realm.
• Qin Hai summoned Xia Wuji and introduced Envoy Liao Shan, who came to invite him to the Wind and Cloud Rankings’ trial.

Xia Wuji accepted an invitation to the Wind and Cloud Rankings trial and traveled to Spirit Peak City with Liao Shan, who revealed that the Wind and Cloud Association knew about the dark aura afflicting Qin Hai and his master. After learning that the association might help them if Xia Wuji proved his worth, Xia Wuji visited Guo Fang and wondered whether the Pill Pagoda master was connected to the association.

• Liao Shan praised Xia Wuji's talent and told him the Wind and Cloud Rankings trial would begin in two days at Spirit Peak City, and Xia Wuji agreed to participate.
• Qin Hai warned Xia Wuji not to reveal the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword and replenished the protective blood-essence talisman he had given him.
• Xia Wuji traveled with Liao Shan to Spirit Peak City, where Liao Shan revealed that the Wind and Cloud Association knew Qin Hai and Xia Wuji's master had been eroded by dark aura.
• Liao Shan offered the possibility of helping them suppress or remove the dark aura if Xia Wuji made the rankings and completed missions in the Dark Forbidden Zone.
• Xia Wuji visited Guo Fang, who said he could briefly draw the Radiant Sun Sacred Fire into his dantian and asked Xia Wuji to help refine it further.
• Xia Wuji noticed Guo Fang showed no surprise about the trial and wondered whether the Pill Pagoda master was connected to the Wind and Cloud Association.

Xia Wuji helped Guo Fang refine the Radiant Sun Sacred Fire and received a treasured pill furnace before joining the Wind and Cloud Rankings trial. In the Wind and Cloud Space, he defeated Xu Yan with one sword and seized the first token.

• Guo Fang gave Xia Wuji a ninth-grade low-grade Purple Profound Pill Furnace and a token allowing him to use the Pill Pagoda’s tenth-floor Alchemy Room.
• Xia Wuji helped Guo Fang refine the Radiant Sun Sacred Fire again, then went to the Wind and Cloud Association’s residence to join the trial group.
• Xu Yan threatened Xia Wuji, accusing him of relying on the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword, and Xia Wuji challenged him to try suppressing him.
• Envoy Liao Shan led the selected youths into the Wind and Cloud Space, where Xia Wuji saw the rankings and learned that three hundred prodigies would compete for three tokens.
• After the trial began, Xu Yan charged Xia Wuji and was badly wounded by a single sword strike.
• Xia Wuji broke through the formation’s pressure, flew up, and seized the first token.

Xia Wuji defended his token in the Wind and Cloud Rankings trial and earned the right to challenge the rankings. After Zhang Bai lost to Zhu Song, Xia Wuji stepped forward to face Zhu Song himself.

• Xia Wuji seized a token and defeated repeated challengers, while Zhang Bai and a Taiyin Sacred Land woman also initially claimed tokens.
• Xia Wuji and Zhang Bai passed the trial and chose to challenge the one-hundredth-ranked Zhu Song immediately, while Li Yao decided to wait.
• Zhang Bai won the draw to challenge Zhu Song first, and Li Yao explained the Wind and Cloud Rankings challenge rules to Xia Wuji as they waited.
• Zhu Song arrived at the sixth level of the Heavenly Gate Realm and defeated Zhang Bai after more than a hundred exchanges.
• When Zhu Song prepared to leave, the old man told him another battle remained, and Xia Wuji stepped forward to challenge him.

Xia Wuji defeated Zhu Song and claimed the hundredth place on the Wind and Cloud Rankings, becoming the first cultivator at the third level of the Myriad Manifestation Realm to enter the rankings. He immediately asked to challenge the ninety-seventh place, held by Shen Ting of Supporting Sky Peak in the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land.

• Zhu Song underestimated Xia Wuji, but Xia Wuji's sword attacks forced him to fight seriously and eventually wounded his right arm.
• Zhu Song admitted defeat, praised Xia Wuji, and advised him to climb higher quickly to avoid constant challenges at the hundredth place.
• Zhang Bai left the Wind and Cloud Space after failing his second challenge, while the Wind and Cloud Association elder congratulated Xia Wuji on entering the rankings.
• Li Yao invited Xia Wuji to visit the True Dragon Hall and meet his elder sister, Li Xuan, who ranked ninth.
• Xia Wuji saw that Shen Ting held the ninety-seventh place and asked the elder whether he could challenge that rank immediately.

Xia Wuji received a Wind and Cloud Token, challenged Shen Ting, and learned he needed to reach the top seventy of the Wind and Cloud Rankings to join the expedition into the Dark Forbidden Zone. Shen Ting accepted the challenge at the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land, where Xia Wuji arrived at the arena ready to fight.

• Xia Wuji bonded with the Wind and Cloud Token and challenged Shen Ting, ranked ninety-seventh on the Wind and Cloud Rankings.
• Liao Shan told Xia Wuji he needed to reach the top seventy to join the Wind and Cloud Association's Dark Forbidden Zone team, and Shen Ting accepted the challenge at the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land.
• Xia Wuji and Liao Shan returned to the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land, where Qin An welcomed Xia Wuji and invited him to Heaven Inquiry Peak.
• Supporting Sky Peak's elders confronted Xia Wuji and led him to the Heavenly Origin Arena, where Shen Ting was waiting.
• Xia Wuji entered the arena, drew his sword, and challenged Shen Ting to use all his tricks.

Xia Wuji defeated Shen Ting on the Heavenly Origin Arena by revealing his Heavenly Fire and using Sacred Spirit Swordplay, then announced that he would challenge Yu Zhen for sixty-eighth place in one month. The chapter ended with Shen Ting badly burned and Xia Wuji setting his next target.

• Shen Ting challenged Xia Wuji and claimed he would defeat him, provoking him by recalling his humiliation at the Pill Pagoda.
• Shen Ting initially gained the advantage with Sacred Thunder Fist, while spectators expected Xia Wuji to lose.
• Xia Wuji unleashed Heavenly Fire and Sacred Spirit Swordplay, cutting through Shen Ting's thunder and burning him nearly to death.
• An elder from Supporting Sky Peak dispersed the flames and rescued Shen Ting as Qin An guarded Xia Wuji.
• Xia Wuji rose to ninety-seventh place on the Wind and Cloud Rankings and declared that he would take Yu Zhen's sixty-eighth place in one month.

After defeating Shen Ting, Xia Wuji challenged Yu Zhen and set out to prepare for the fight by reforging his Seven Emotions Flying Swords. He and Qin An traveled to the Nine Yang Sword Sect to seek rare Feather Stones, with Xia Wuji revealing a connection to the sect’s Lu Family.

• Xia Wuji announced that he would challenge Yu Zhen, and Liao Shan confirmed he would update Xia Wuji’s Wind and Cloud Rankings standing and witness the match.
• Qin An warned Xia Wuji that Yu Zhen had mastered the Thousand Illusion Lightning Body and the Sky Splitting Mad Saber, but Xia Wuji remained confident.
• Qin Hai praised Xia Wuji and offered him resources; Xia Wuji requested materials to reforge his Seven Flying Swords and said he would do the work himself.
• Qin An identified the Nine Yang Sword Sect as a possible source of Feather Stones, and Qin Hai sent Qin An and Xia Wuji to obtain them.
• After arriving at the Nine Yang Sword Sect, Xia Wuji urged Qin An to approach the Lu Family instead of sect master Huang Jun, saying he had a connection with them.

Xia Wuji and Qin An visited the Nine Yang Sword Sect, where Lu Qing welcomed them after learning their identities and recalled how Xia Wuji had helped the Lu Family. Lin Ling provided the Feather Stone and other materials Xia Wuji needed, then told him about a source stone that might contain a rare purple ore, prompting him to ask to visit the Source Stone Merchant Guild.

• Qin An revealed to Lu Qing that he was from Heaven Inquiry Peak and that Xia Wuji was the famed Wind and Cloud Rankings prodigy.
• Lu Qing explained that Xia Wuji had returned Sword Obsessed's secret to the Lu Family, helping it survive a crisis and gain influence within the Nine Yang Sword Sect.
• Lin Ling and Lu Feixia reunited with Xia Wuji, and Lin Ling told him she had gathered flying-sword materials for him by earning Spirit Crystals through source-stone gambling.
• Lin Ling described a source stone she had seen with her Pale Eyes that contained ore resembling Feather Stone and glowing purple, and Xia Wuji suspected it might hold Purple Feather Sky Stone.
• Xia Wuji asked Qin An to let him visit the Source Stone Merchant Guild with Lin Ling.

Xia Wuji visited the Source Stone Merchant Guild with Qin An, Lin Ling, and Lu Feixia, where his Spiritual Eye Technique and Heavenly Secret Art helped him identify a valuable low-grade source stone. As they reached the second floor, they encountered Shen Yun, the father of Supporting Sky Peak’s master.

• Qin An accompanied Xia Wuji to the Source Stone Merchant Guild and warned him not to become obsessed with gambling on source stones.
• Lin Ling and Lu Feixia gave Xia Wuji and Qin An masks and codenames before the group entered the guild.
• Lin Ling explained how to bargain for source stones, while Xia Wuji used his abilities to spot an emerald-lit stone and bought it for five hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.
• Xia Wuji and his companions reached the second floor, where Shen Yun offered one hundred and fifty million Spirit Crystals for a human-head-sized source stone.
• Qin An identified Shen Yun as the father of Shen Cong, the master of Supporting Sky Peak.

Xia Wuji recognized a rare treasure in a source stone and outmaneuvered Shen Yun to buy it cheaply after Shen Yun used a fake bid to disrupt Lin Ling’s purchase. When the group learned Shen Yun was winning big on the third floor, Xia Wuji decided to challenge him and make Supporting Sky Peak pay.

• Xia Wuji saw that Shen Yun’s human-sized source stone was worth far less than its asking price, then learned Shen Yun had previously threatened Lin Ling over a treasure she had cracked open.
• Xia Wuji identified Purple Feather Sky Stone inside the source stone Lin Ling wanted, but Shen Yun drove the bidding up to two hundred five million Spirit Crystals to spite her.
• Xia Wuji and his companions walked away, and Shen Yun refused to honor his bid; the stall owner later sold the source stone to Xia Wuji for fifty-five million Spirit Crystals.
• Xia Wuji kept the source stone unopened and bought four more, while Lin Ling also purchased several stones.
• After hearing that Shen Yun had won three hundred million Spirit Crystals in a gamble on the third floor, Xia Wuji asked Qin An to go challenge him and collect interest from Supporting Sky Peak.

Xia Wuji and Lin Ling turned their source-stone purchases into enough Spirit Crystals to enter the Source Stone Merchant Guild’s third floor, where Xia Wuji challenged Shen Yun to a high-stakes gamble. The chapter ended with Shen Yun accepting a five-hundred-million-Spirit-Crystal match.

• Xia Wuji and Lin Ling had their source stones cut open, revealing a mix of losses and valuable treasures that the Source Stone Merchant Guild bought for two hundred and sixty million Spirit Crystals.
• Xia Wuji and his companions entered the third floor after guards verified they had enough Spirit Crystals, while Qin An worried about the risks of high-stakes gambling.
• Xia Wuji spotted Shen Yun celebrating his recent wins and learned that Shen Yun had deliberately disrupted Lin Ling’s source-stone purchases after she refused to sell him a treasure cheaply.
• Shen Yun challenged Lin Ling to a source-stone wager, proposing three hundred million Spirit Crystals, and Xia Wuji mocked him for wagering so little.
• Xia Wuji raised the wager to five hundred million Spirit Crystals, and Shen Yun accepted.

Xia Wuji and Shen Yun wagered five hundred million Spirit Crystals on high-grade source stones, and Shen Yun appeared to win after extracting a valuable Sky Blue Crystal. Xia Wuji revealed that the dull seed-like object from his stone contained something extraordinary, leaving the wager unresolved.

• Xia Wuji and Shen Yun each selected a source stone worth no more than fifty million Spirit Crystals, with Shen Yun choosing one priced at forty-eight million and Xia Wuji choosing one priced at eight million.
• Shen Yun's source stone yielded a fist-sized Sky Blue Crystal, which onlookers estimated was worth at least one hundred million Spirit Crystals.
• Xia Wuji's source stone appeared to yield only a dull, bean-sized object, and Shen Yun demanded the five-hundred-million-Spirit-Crystal wager.
• Xia Wuji took the object and pinched it, causing cracks to release dazzling light and an incomparably rich fragrance across the third floor.