Chapter Summaries

Yao Sen took Xia Wuji and Yan Bing into the depths of the Dark Forbidden Zone to meet Duanmu Qingfeng at Heavenly Light Camp. Duanmu offered Xia Wuji a chance to join the camp and become his disciple if he earned ten million Contribution Points in one month, and Xia Wuji accepted the challenge.

• Xia Wuji used the Heavenly Light Technique to protect himself, Yan Bing, and Yao Sen as they entered the Dark Forbidden Zone, where Yan Bing killed a dark lifeform and kept its black core.
• Yao Sen explained how black cores and Dark Crystal Cores were valued, showed them a Dark Crystal Core, and described the three paths available at Heavenly Light Camp.
• The group reached the beacon tower, where Yan Bing said she wanted to learn talisman-making and artifact-refining while Xia Wuji chose combat missions to earn Contribution Points and help his corrupted grandmaster and master.
• Yao Sen returned from speaking with Duanmu Qingfeng and told Xia Wuji that he had to earn ten million Contribution Points through combat missions in one month to join Heavenly Light Camp and become Duanmu's disciple.
• Xia Wuji agreed to meet the one-month challenge, while Yan Bing worried that the goal was nearly impossible.

Xia Wuji joined Yao Sen’s Ninth Battle Team temporarily to enter the Dark Forbidden Zone and earn Contribution Points for the Wind and Cloud Association. After learning battlefield support techniques and receiving supplies, he set out with the team while Yan Bing stayed at the Heavenly Light Camp to study crafting.

• Yao Sen brought Xia Wuji to the Ninth Battle Team and assigned Li Ying to teach him how to use the Heavenly Light Technique in battle.
• Li Ying assessed Xia Wuji’s heavenly light, shared her battlefield experience, and gave him mission supplies worth five million Contribution Points.
• Yan Bing finished joining the Heavenly Light Camp and gave Xia Wuji a stack of Mid-grade Heavenly Light Talismans before he departed.
• Yao Sen led the Ninth Battle Team out of the camp, and the team became solemn as they entered the darkness.

Xia Wuji learned how the Ninth Battle Squad coordinated its attacks and prepared with them to lure and ambush a large group of dark lifeforms. The chapter ended as Yao Sen and the squad charged into a valley crowded with more than five hundred dark lifeforms.

• Yao Sen arranged for a Ninth Battle Squad member to kill a Star Plucking Realm dark lifeform while Li Ying demonstrated how to use heavenly light to support an ally.
• Over two days, Xia Wuji joined several fights, earned more than sixty thousand Contribution Points, and impressed the squad with his timing.
• Yao Sen led several people away to scout, while Li Ying told Xia Wuji the squad planned to lure nearby dark lifeforms together for a major haul.
• Xia Wuji inspected his Sea Spirit Imprints and wondered whether the Golden Sea King Sword's aura had mingled with the darkness, then strengthened his heavenly light reserves.
• Yao Sen spilled Black Fiend Spirit Marrow in the valley, drawing more than five hundred dark lifeforms, including eight at the Star Plucking Realm.
• Yao Sen led the Ninth Battle Squad's attack, while Li Ying swept the valley with heavenly light and told Xia Wuji to follow her instructions.

Xia Wuji and the Ninth Battle Team fought the dark creatures in the valley, but the creatures began acting as if guided by an intelligent leader. Xia Wuji discovered the hidden intelligent dark creature and feigned weakness to draw it close, then struck it with a barrage of heavenly light.

• Yao Sen led the Ninth Battle Team in attacking the dark creatures while Li Ying used Heavenly Light Lamps and Xia Wuji deployed Heavenly Light Talismans to support them.
• More than a dozen dark creatures attacked Xia Wuji and Li Ying, and Xia Wuji noticed they were targeting the two of them rather than simply fighting indiscriminately.
• The dark creatures in the valley blocked the team’s retreat, and Li Ying realized an intelligent dark creature might be directing them.
• Xia Wuji used his spiritual power and the Brightness Scripture to find a humanoid dark creature linked to the others by invisible threads.
• Xia Wuji pretended to be struck and fell toward the intelligent dark creature, dodged its claws, and attacked it with more than twenty Heavenly Light Talismans and a Heavenly Light Bead.

Xia Wuji killed a sentient dark creature during the Ninth Battle Squad’s mission, earning enough Contribution Points to pass Master Duanmu’s test. The squad prepared to send him back to camp, where he could officially join the Heavenly Light Camp and become Duanmu Qingfeng’s disciple.

• Xia Wuji burned and trapped the sentient dark creature with heavenly light before killing it with the Seven Emotions Flying Swords and claiming its Dark Crystal Core.
• Yao Sen led the Ninth Battle Squad through the remaining dark creatures, then ordered the team to collect the spoils and withdraw.
• Yao Sen awarded Xia Wuji three million Contribution Points, while the sentient creature’s Dark Crystal Core was worth roughly twelve million more.
• Xia Wuji told Yao Sen and the squad that he had struck the creature by accident while throwing out his heavenly light treasures, keeping the Brightness Scripture secret.
• Yao Sen revealed that Xia Wuji had less than half a month of experience with the Heavenly Light Technique and had been tested on whether he could earn ten million Contribution Points in a month.
• Yao Sen arranged for Jia Feng to escort Xia Wuji back to camp, and Xia Wuji promised to consider joining the Ninth Battle Squad.

Xia Wuji joined the Heavenly Light Camp as Duanmu Qingfeng’s sixth disciple and received the middle section of the Heavenly Light Technique. After advancing his cultivation and deciding to learn talisman-making, he went to find Yan Bing, where an explosion erupted from her room.

• Xia Wuji returned to the Heavenly Light Camp with Jia Feng and met Duanmu Qingfeng, who accepted him as his sixth disciple and gave him the middle section of the Heavenly Light Technique.
• Duanmu Qingfeng told Xia Wuji he could teach him how to dispel the dark aura afflicting Qin An and Qin Hai if Xia Wuji perfected the technique, but would not risk weakening the lighthouse himself.
• Xia Wuji registered at the camp and spoke with Yan Bing, who credited his success against the sentient dark creature to her Mid-grade Heavenly Light Talismans and discussed learning to make talismans together.
• Xia Wuji used heavenly light to detect and soothe damage in Yan Bing’s meridians, then spent ten days cultivating and advanced to the seventh level of the Myriad Manifestation Realm.
• Xia Wuji went to find Yan Bing to reveal his mastery of the technique’s middle section and learn talisman-making, but an explosion blasted the doors and windows of her room outward.

Xia Wuji found Yan Bing framed after five hundred Heavenly Light Talismans exploded and confronted the people behind the sabotage. Zhang Xian challenged Xia Wuji to make a talisman, with Yan Bing’s freedom and Xia Wuji’s hand at stake; Xia Wuji asked Yan Bing to prepare the materials.

• Yan Bing told Xia Wuji that the five hundred talismans Huang Fei had entrusted to her exploded while she nourished them, and Xia Wuji suspected they had been defective from the start.
• Huang Fei and Zheng Jie accused Yan Bing of destroying the talismans, and Huang Fei tried to slap her before Xia Wuji severed Huang Fei’s palm and kicked her away.
• Xia Wuji named Zheng Jie’s grudge against Yan Bing and led Yan Bing out, while the gathered disciples backed down after recognizing him as Duanmu Qingfeng’s sixth disciple.
• Zhang Xian arrived, sided with Zheng Jie, and challenged Xia Wuji to make a Heavenly Light Talisman, promising to let Yan Bing go if he succeeded and threatening to take Xia Wuji’s hand if he failed.
• Xia Wuji accepted Zhang Xian’s terms and asked Yan Bing to prepare the talisman-making materials.

Xia Wuji created a new Heavenly Light Talisman despite Zhang Xian and the crowd mocking his technique. The two men activated their talismans to compare them, and both lit up, leaving the test unresolved.

• Yan Bing prepared the materials, and Xia Wuji began drawing talisman patterns with startling speed and skill.
• Zhang Xian noticed Xia Wuji changing the established patterns and accused him of making mistakes, while Xia Wuji insisted he was improving the talisman.
• Xia Wuji completed his talisman, and Yan Bing nourished it without causing it to explode.
• Zhang Xian challenged Xia Wuji to compare his talisman with a standard low-grade Heavenly Light Talisman for brightness and duration.
• Xia Wuji and Zhang Xian sent heavenly light into their talismans, and both talismans lit up.

Xia Wuji proved that he had created an improved Low-grade Heavenly Light Talisman, forcing Zhang Xian to let him take Yan Bing away. His achievement drew the attention of Duanmu Qingfeng and Grand Commander Xiao Tianye, who summoned him to the lighthouse.

• Xia Wuji's talisman shone brighter and lasted longer than Zhang Xian's, convincing the crowd that he had advanced the Low-grade Heavenly Light Talisman.
• Xia Wuji took Yan Bing away and said he would continue investigating the matter; Zhang Xian did not stop them.
• At Xia Wuji's residence, Yan Bing asked how he had learned to make talismans, and he credited insights she had left behind.
• Xia Wuji redirected the heavenly light in Yan Bing's body, then answered Li Ming's summons to meet Duanmu Qingfeng and Xiao Tianye at the lighthouse.
• Li Ming warned Xia Wuji that Zhang Xian was vindictive and backed by a powerful family, then Xia Wuji flew to the lighthouse's top.

Xia Wuji demonstrated his improved low-grade Heavenly Light Talisman, earned rewards, and taught the method to the Heavenly Light Camp. During his cultivation, the Golden Sea King Sword stirred as the lighthouse’s radiance faltered under a tremendous surge of dark aura.

• Xia Wuji made an improved low-grade Heavenly Light Talisman for Duanmu Qingfeng and Xiao Tianye, who confirmed its stronger, longer-lasting radiance.
• Xiao Tianye awarded Xia Wuji one hundred million Contribution Points and a Heavenly Light Token, while Duanmu Qingfeng gave him a powerful Talisman Brush and ordered him to teach the new method.
• The Heavenly Light Camp expelled Huang Fei and Zheng Jie, crippled their Heavenly Light Technique foundations, and fined Zhang Xian ten million Contribution Points while removing her from talisman-making duties.
• Xia Wuji taught the camp how to make his improved low-grade talisman, then began cultivating with his accumulated Contribution Points.
• The Sea Spirit imprints in Xia Wuji’s body throbbed, and he discovered that dense dark aura was threatening the lighthouse’s flickering radiance.
• Xia Wuji rushed toward the lighthouse as the camp mobilized to defend it, wondering whether the crisis was connected to the Golden Sea King Sword.

A sudden dark tide attacked the Heaven Light Camp, forcing Master Duanmu Qingfeng to activate the Heavenly Sun Pearl while the camp’s warriors fought back. After Jia Feng returned wounded and revealed that the Ninth Battle Team was trapped among dark creatures, Xia Wuji volunteered to join the rescue mission.

• Li Ming explained the unexpected dark-tide eruption to Xia Wuji as they went to Master Duanmu Qingfeng at the lighthouse.
• Xiao Tianye led the camp’s warriors against the dark creatures, and Master Duanmu Qingfeng activated the Heavenly Sun Pearl to protect the camp.
• As the dark tide weakened, Xia Wuji worried about the missing Ninth Battle Team and asked Li Ming to notify him of any news.
• Jia Feng arrived badly wounded and told Xia Wuji that the Ninth Battle Team remained alive but was trapped by dark creatures.
• Xiao Tianye organized an emergency rescue after hearing Jia Feng’s report, and Xia Wuji volunteered to join; Xiao Tianye granted his request.

Xia Wuji joined a dangerous mission to rescue the Ninth Battle Team and investigate threats around the Heavenly Light Camp. When Zhang Xian delayed the rescue, Xia Wuji used Xiao Tianye’s authority and revealed he had mastered the middle section of the Heavenly Light Technique, then led the Third Battle Team toward the trapped team.

• Xia Wuji exchanged twenty million Contribution Points for supplies and joined three battle teams preparing for the mission, while Li Ming stayed behind.
• Zhang Yan sent Zhang Xian along with the teams, and Zhang Xian and Xia Wuji traded hostile remarks as they entered the dangerous area.
• The teams fought a large group of dark creatures, leaving the Third Battle Team’s Heavenly Light Technique master exhausted.
• Zhang Xian, Feng Xin, and Chen Shen argued that the teams should investigate threats around the camp before rescuing the Ninth Battle Team, but Xia Wuji showed Xiao Tianye’s token and ordered Lu Yong to follow him.
• Xia Wuji released enough heavenly light to illuminate a thousand zhang, proving he had mastered the technique’s middle section, and flew toward the Ninth Battle Team with the Third Battle Team following.

Xia Wuji led the Third Battle Team to rescue the Ninth Battle Team as Zhang Xian secretly arranged to leave his group and cover his tracks. Xia Wuji arrived just as the Ninth Battle Team prepared to make its final stand, and reported back to the ranks.

• Zhang Xian refused to reconcile with Xia Wuji and arranged for Chen Shen to falsely confirm that he stayed with the battle team while he slipped away.
• Xia Wuji suppressed the reacting Sea Spirit imprints and led the Third Battle Team toward the Ninth Battle Team, while Lu Yong warned him to return to camp quickly after the rescue.
• Yao Sen and the battered Ninth Battle Team prepared to fight to the death as dark lifeforms overwhelmed their defenses.
• Xia Wuji's Heavenly Light Talismans and lamps struck the dark lifeforms and shielded the Ninth Battle Team, giving the survivors renewed hope.
• Xia Wuji arrived before Yao Sen, Li Ying, and the others and announced that he was reporting back to the ranks.

Xia Wuji left the Third and Ninth Teams to follow the approaching summons of the Golden Sea King Sword. When the sword appeared, the terrifying dark creature that had once taken it asked Xia Wuji for help.

• Xia Wuji helped the Third and Ninth Teams fight through the dark creatures, while Zhang Xian abandoned his chance to attack and waited for another opportunity.
• As the teams neared their escape, Xia Wuji sensed the Golden Sea King Sword approaching and deliberately let dark creatures separate him from the others.
• Xia Wuji escaped alone, and Zhang Xian sent a tracker after him while Wang Han stayed behind to protect Zhang Xian.
• Xia Wuji prepared the Universe Pagoda, the Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword, and Qin Hai's blood-essence talisman before the Golden Sea King Sword emerged from a split in space.
• The dark creature that had taken the Golden Sea King Sword approached Xia Wuji, pulled the sword from the ground, and hoarsely asked him for help.

Xia Wuji discovered that the terrifying dark entity was using the Golden Sea King Sword to resist the Dark Law's erosion, then learned Zhang Xian and Wang Han were coming to capture him. The dark entity brought Xia Wuji to their group, where Zhang Xian begged for mercy and Xia Wuji threatened to turn him into a dark entity.

• Xia Wuji used the forty-six sea spirits to help the dark entity suppress the Dark Law's erosion, then asked it to explain what was happening.
• A ninth-tier Star Plucking Realm expert attacked the dark entity, was reduced to a remnant soul, and told Xia Wuji that Zhang Xian and Wang Han were on their way.
• The dark entity transported Xia Wuji away just before Zhang Xian and Wang Han reached his previous location.
• The dark entity unleashed its power on Zhang Xian's group, destroying Zhang Xian's Heavenly Light treasures and leaving Wang Han and the others incapacitated.
• Zhang Xian begged the dark entity for mercy, then recognized Xia Wuji and pleaded with him to spare his life.
• Xia Wuji mocked Zhang Xian's pleas and threatened to turn him into a dark entity.

Xia Wuji learned the story behind the Golden Sea King Sword and gave its dark creature holder the Brightness Scripture to try. After Zhang Xian and his men were transformed into dark creatures, Xia Wuji returned to the camp with his allies and captured Zhang Xian to hand over to Zhang Yan.

• Xia Wuji learned that the Golden Sea King Sword belonged to the dark creature’s deceased elder brother, who had used it to preserve his younger brother’s consciousness while seeking to purge his darkness.
• The dark creature warned Xia Wuji that someone was absorbing the Dark Law to control the Dark Forbidden Zone, and Xia Wuji gave him the Brightness Scripture while letting him keep the sword for now.
• Xia Wuji reunited with Lu Yong, Yao Sen, and the surviving members of the Ninth Battle Team, and they set out for the Heaven’s Light Camp.
• Chen Shen approached Zhang Xian and his men as they returned, only to discover that they had become dark creatures; they attacked him and the Twelfth Battle Team.
• Xia Wuji and his allies defeated the transformed men, bound Zhang Xian with heavenly light, and decided to take him back to camp for Zhang Yan to deal with.

After Zhang Xian became a dark creature, Xia Wuji helped rescue the survivors and received a reward, while Zhang Yan destroyed his son. Duanmu Qingfeng revealed the threat of a dark Great Saint and passed Xia Wuji the upper section of the Heavenly Light Technique; after Xia Wuji broke through to the eighth level of the Myriad Manifestation Realm, Liao Shan arrived with a request for him to return to Heaven Inquiry Peak.

• Zhang Yan questioned Xia Wuji and the others about Zhang Xian, then destroyed his son after accepting that Zhang Xian had been corrupted by darkness.
• Xiao Tianye rewarded Xia Wuji and the Third Squad, demoted Feng Xin, and warned Yao Sen that Heavenly Light Camp faced greater challenges.
• Duanmu Qingfeng told Xia Wuji that his Fourth Senior Sister had died and passed him the upper section of the Heavenly Light Technique, explaining that a dark creature had reached the Great Saint Realm.
• Xia Wuji exchanged his Contribution Points for cultivation resources and, seven days later, broke through to the eighth level of the Myriad Manifestation Realm.
• Liao Shan told Xia Wuji that Heaven Inquiry Peak had asked him to return to the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land as soon as possible.

Xia Wuji left the Dark Forbidden Zone after Duanmu Qingfeng gave him a space-shattering escape crystal, then traveled with Liao Shan toward the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land. Their journey ended in an ambush by masked attackers, and the leading Carefree Realm expert targeted Xia Wuji as his flying swords were pinned in place.

• Liao Shan explained the Five Sacred Assembly and brought Xia Wuji to Duanmu Qingfeng, who gave him an escape crystal and urged him to master the Heavenly Light Technique.
• Xiao Tianye questioned Duanmu Qingfeng's support for Xia Wuji, and Duanmu Qingfeng said he hoped to protect the Central Region from a dark upheaval.
• Xia Wuji distributed resources to Yan Bing, instructed Li Ying in the Heavenly Light Technique, and left the Dark Forbidden Zone with Liao Shan.
• Xia Wuji discovered that his Wind and Cloud Rankings position had fallen from sixty-eighth to seventieth because he had missed challenges while in the Dark Forbidden Zone.
• After a teleportation array malfunction forced them to fly, masked attackers ambushed Xia Wuji and Liao Shan; the Carefree Realm leader bound Liao Shan and pinned Xia Wuji's flying swords.
• Xia Wuji sneered as the talisman wrapped around one flying sword suddenly erupted.

Xia Wuji used Qin Hai’s talisman to kill the Carefree Realm assassin, then escaped the Blood Robe Old Monster with a Spatial Teleportation Crystal. He arrived in True Dragon City as Qin Hai learned that something had happened to him and rushed toward Spirit Peak City.

• Xia Wuji used Qin Hai’s talisman to erase the Carefree Realm expert and the other attackers, but the talisman’s power also destroyed his flying swords.
• The Blood Robe Old Monster appeared, revealed that he wanted Xia Wuji’s Heaven Inquiry Sacred Sword, and attacked him after Liao Shan identified him.
• Xia Wuji shattered the Spatial Teleportation Crystal Duanmu Qingfeng had given him and vanished before the Blood Robe Old Monster could kill him.
• The Blood Robe Old Monster crushed Liao Shan’s chest but left him alive, wary of killing an envoy of the Wind and Cloud Association.
• Qin Hai sensed that something had happened to Xia Wuji and departed for Spirit Peak City while Qin An mobilized Heaven Inquiry Peak’s forces.
• Xia Wuji arrived in True Dragon City, in the territory of True Dragon Hall, and headed for the city gate.

Xia Wuji sought refuge in the True Dragon Hall after escaping an assassination attempt by the Blood Robe Old Monster, hoping to return to the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land before its Holy Son selection. Li Xuan brought him to the Coiling Dragon Pillar to earn the Hall Master’s help, where all nine dragon souls awakened and bowed to him.

• Xia Wuji concealed his identity when he arrived at the True Dragon Hall and asked its guards to find Li Yao.
• Li Yao brought Xia Wuji to his courtyard, where Xia Wuji revealed his injuries and said the Blood Robe Old Monster had tried to kill him.
• Li Yao urged Xia Wuji to stay and recover, but Xia Wuji insisted on returning to the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land and revealed his connection to the Lower Domain’s True Dragon Hall.
• Li Xuan arrived, learned about Xia Wuji’s situation, and took him to the Coiling Dragon Pillar, explaining that awakening more than six dragon souls could earn him an audience with the Hall Master.
• The Azure Sky Dragon Python coiled around the pillar, awakening all nine dragon souls, which circled Xia Wuji and bowed their heads.