Chapter Summaries

Pei Yan agreed to teach Xu Yunfan the Three Viscera Sword Nurturing Art in exchange for Xu Yunfan’s oath to keep the Empty Clarity Sword Art secret. After learning the method, Xu Yunfan began practicing, confident he could quickly reach the introductory stage.

• Pei Yan asked Xu Yunfan how he could cleanse the Dragon Venom from his body, and Xu Yunfan promised to clear the poison from his Three Viscera Meridians.
• Pei Yan offered to teach Xu Yunfan the Three Viscera Sword Nurturing Art first, with the Empty Clarity Sword Art to follow if Xu Yunfan mastered the basics.
• Xu Yunfan swore by Heavenly Crafting Cave not to reveal or pass on the Empty Clarity Sword Art.
• Pei Yan recited the Three Viscera Sword Nurturing Art and set Xu Yunfan a one-month deadline to reach its introductory stage.
• Xu Yunfan checked that the art had been recorded, then took a tree branch outside and began practicing, relying on his Crimson Dragon Coiling Mountain Strength.

Xu Yunfan cultivated the Three Viscera Sword Nurturing Art overnight, enduring severe damage to his meridians before reaching the beginner level. Pei Yan was stunned when Xu Yunfan revealed his rapid progress, just as the sword strength in Xu Yunfan’s meridians awakened.

• Xu Yunfan used Crimson Dragon Coiling Mountain Strength to cultivate the Three Viscera Sword Nurturing Art and began condensing sword qi in his meridians.
• Xu Yunfan’s meridians were badly damaged by the cultivation, but the Dragon Scale Armor Plates suppressed his rampaging blood and qi, and Ginseng Qi helped him repair them.
• Xu Yunfan formed a Sword Dao Cycle and, at dawn, released sword qi that carved a deep spiral mark into a distant bluestone.
• Xu Yunfan recalled the Sword Pavilion’s medicinal regimen and concluded that the Green Bamboo Sword could help refine his strength into true sword qi.
• Pei Yan warned Xu Yunfan about cultivating without the Sword Pavilion’s secret medicine, then reacted with shock when Xu Yunfan said he had reached the beginner level.
• Xu Yunfan’s dormant sword strength awakened in his Three Viscera Meridians as Pei Yan rushed toward him.

Xu Yunfan proved he had mastered Triple Burner Sword Strength and took the injured Pei Yan to a lava-filled secret realm to treat his Dragon Venom. As Pei Yan struggled through the treatment, Xu Yunfan cultivated the Three Viscera Sword Nurturing Art nearby.

• Xu Yunfan demonstrated Triple Burner Sword Strength, leaving Pei Yan astonished by his rapid progress.
• Pei Yan agreed to teach Xu Yunfan the Empty Clarity Sword Art in exchange for help recovering from his injuries and purging the Dragon Venom.
• Xu Yunfan carried Pei Yan to a lava-filled crevice in the Small World Secret Realm and blindfolded him.
• Xu Yunfan used the earthfire's heat to draw out Pei Yan's Dragon Venom, causing Pei Yan's body to convulse as poison and Ginseng Qi clashed.
• Xu Yunfan cultivated the Three Viscera Sword Nurturing Art with Ten Thousand Year Ginseng Qi and rapidly gained proficiency.

Pei Yan recovered enough to bargain with Xu Yunfan, who traded Ginseng Qi for the outlines of the Empty Clarity Sword Art. Xu Yunfan’s Attribute Panel completed the method, and he agreed to help Pei Yan again as the Dragon Venom continued to threaten him.

• Pei Yan said the Dragon Venom had receded and offered to help purge Xu Yunfan’s poison if he received more Ginseng Qi.
• Xu Yunfan refused to give up the precious Ginseng Qi without a bargain, and Pei Yan offered to teach him the Empty Clarity Sword Art’s outlines and essential formulas.
• Pei Yan explained the three volumes of the art while deliberately omitting a dangerous technique, but Xu Yunfan’s Attribute Panel recorded and completed the cultivation method.
• Pei Yan’s Dragon Venom began spreading again, and he asked Xu Yunfan to help him with the remaining training methods.
• Xu Yunfan agreed to help Pei Yan and told him to forgive the offense.

Xu Yunfan ambushed Pei Yan to seize his treasure and fought him in the earthfire pool, using his armor and mace to counter Pei Yan’s sword techniques. The chapter ended with Xu Yunfan’s Eighth Order Divine Weapon suppressing Pei Yan’s armor and melting away his sword qi as the mace struck.

• Xu Yunfan blindfolded Pei Yan, then attacked him when he opened the Mystic Steel Mechanism Box to reveal the Ginseng Qi.
• Pei Yan broke free and fought back with his divine weapon breastplate and sword qi, but Xu Yunfan exploited the armor’s weakness to earthfire and struck a major acupoint at Pei Yan’s thigh.
• Pei Yan used Disassembly and Transformation to unleash the Big Dipper Seven Swords, but Xu Yunfan’s Crimson Fire Dragon Devouring Mace shattered the sword formation.
• Pei Yan tried to defend himself with his treasure armor, but Xu Yunfan’s Dragon Scale Armor revealed the pressure of an Eighth Order Divine Weapon and suppressed its supernatural power.
• Xu Yunfan brought the mace down on Pei Yan’s armor, and the divine weapon’s pressure began melting the sword qi in Pei Yan’s Three Viscera Meridians.

Xu Yunfan killed Pei Yan and Qi Huan in the earthfire cavern, and his Dragon Scale Armor devoured Pei Yan’s divine armor, growing stronger. After returning to the surface, he encountered a six-fingered female monk who said she had come seeking a way to survive.

• Xu Yunfan’s Dragon Scale Armor devoured Pei Yan’s Big Dipper Pivot Armor, strengthening the armor and loosening Xu Yunfan’s Blood Exchange bottleneck.
• Xu Yunfan killed Qi Huan after Qi Huan revealed that the Buddha Son of Maitreya Temple was looking for him.
• Xu Yunfan emerged from the fissure and met a barefoot, six-fingered female monk surrounded by Buddhist halos and golden lotuses.
• The female monk recognized that Xu Yunfan had entered the state and told him the Buddha had said there was a chance of survival here.

Xu Yunfan learned that the secret realm’s way out had been cut off and discovered Pei Yan had left sword qi lodged in his meridians. He rejected Jing Ming’s attempt to convert him and attacked her, but she rose into the air behind a barrier of Buddhist light.

• Jing Ming identified herself as a disciple of Amitabha Temple and warned Xu Yunfan that his fiend energy had severed the land vein’s path of life, cutting off the way out.
• Jing Ming tried to bewitch Xu Yunfan into entering Buddhism, but he recognized her influence and refused.
• Jing Ming revealed that Pei Yan’s sword qi had entwined Xu Yunfan’s Three Viscera vital acupoints, and Xu Yunfan found the thread lodged in his meridians.
• Xu Yunfan decided the sword qi could eventually aid him in reaching the Ninth Realm and confronted Jing Ming.
• Xu Yunfan attacked Jing Ming with his Thunder Fire Qilin Hammer, but her Eight Treasures Bodhi Beads summoned golden lotuses and a barrier of Buddhist scripture characters.

Xu Yunfan defeated Jing Ming after a fierce battle in which he unleashed the Lin Character Secret and overcame her Buddhist arts and treasures. He captured her alive and began torturing her, hoping to force her to reveal Amitabha Temple’s supreme cultivation techniques.

• Xu Yunfan used the Lin Word Seal to strengthen himself and fought Jing Ming, whose Buddhist techniques and treasures let her match him for a time.
• Jing Ming bound Xu Yunfan with golden chains, but he broke her seal by releasing the demonic impurities within him and struck her down.
• Xu Yunfan shattered Jing Ming’s rosary, knocked her from the air, sealed her qi and blood, and bound her after disabling her vital acupoints.
• Xu Yunfan left the Lin Stance and reflected on the danger of using it too often, then dragged Jing Ming toward the earthfire fissure.
• Xu Yunfan pressed Jing Ming’s head against the scorching rock, intending to force her to teach him Amitabha Temple’s supreme arts.

Xu Yunfan tortured Jing Ming to force her to reveal Buddhist cultivation secrets, but she resisted and tried to destroy herself with a forbidden technique. After he crippled her legs with the Three Viscera Sword Nurturing Art, Jing Ming agreed to talk.

• Xu Yunfan pressed Jing Ming about Amitabha Temple's Joyous Meditation art and the Amitabha Golden Body Scripture, but she denied knowing the former and said she practiced the Amitabha Esoteric Method.
• Xu Yunfan threatened and wounded Jing Ming while demanding the Classic of Change Marrow Cleansing Skill, and she began reciting scripture as golden grains appeared across her body.
• Jing Ming used the Throat Locking Golden Lock Barrier, sprayed Xu Yunfan with karmic fire, and attempted to kill them both with the Scripture Burning Curse.
• Xu Yunfan survived behind his Dragon Scale Armor and used the Three Viscera Sword Nurturing Art to shred Jing Ming's legs.
• Xu Yunfan stopped his hammer just before striking Jing Ming's head, and she finally agreed to talk.

Xu Yunfan discovered that Jing Ming had falsified parts of the Classic of Change Marrow Cleansing Skill and forcibly invaded her sea of consciousness to obtain the true text. After Jing Ming mechanically recited the method, Xu Yunfan learned it and resolved that acting against her had been worthwhile.

• Jing Ming recited the Classic of Change Marrow Cleansing Skill, but Xu Yunfan caught her deception when she could not repeat it backward.
• Xu Yunfan tortured Jing Ming until she admitted that he could not cultivate the method without the Selfless Buddha Compassion Heart Method.
• Xu Yunfan used the Lin Character Secret and his Self-God to invade Jing Ming's sea of consciousness and break through her Arhat Array.
• Xu Yunfan's Self-God uncovered a hidden swastika seal and retreated as Jing Ming's sea of consciousness began to collapse.
• Jing Ming mechanically recited the true skill, and Xu Yunfan's Attribute Panel confirmed that he had learned the Classic of Change Marrow Cleansing Skill.

Xu Yunfan absorbed the power from Jing Ming’s Golden Silk Soft Armor and advanced his Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique through relentless cultivation. After reaching perfection, he broke through into the Marrow Cleansing Realm.

• Xu Yunfan threw Jing Ming into the lava and used the Dragon Scale Armor to consume her Golden Silk Soft Armor, absorbing its Buddhist power.
• Xu Yunfan’s blood qi and martial technique proficiency increased, bringing the Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique close to perfection.
• Xu Yunfan considered the danger of Amitabha Temple and began cultivating the Purple Firmament Immortal Muscle Chapter’s methods at a mountain rock platform.
• Xu Yunfan trained for nine days with Ginseng Qi supporting him, raising the Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique to five thousand proficiency.
• Xu Yunfan perfected the hammer technique, entered the Marrow Cleansing Realm, and felt force surge through his bones and marrow.

Xu Yunfan perfected the Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique and advanced to the Marrow Cleansing Realm, then followed a divine weapon’s radiance to a White Jade Palace in the Small World Secret Realm. There he confronted Su Zhenhe, whose attention had been fixed on the palace, and prepared to claim the weapon.

• Xu Yunfan’s blood, marrow, and muscles transformed as he perfected the Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique and entered the Marrow Cleansing Realm.
• Xu Yunfan discovered he could draw Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into his body through the power of his marrow alone.
• Ten thousand rays of clear light erupted from the Small World Secret Realm’s center, signaling that a powerful divine weapon had awakened.
• Xu Yunfan followed the radiance to a White Jade Palace exposed inside a split mountain, where its bells destroyed nearby demons and monsters.
• Xu Yunfan silently approached Su Zhenhe at a nearby cliff and appeared behind him with his Crimson Fire Dragon Devouring Mace ready.
• Su Zhenhe recoiled in fear and realized Xu Yunfan had discovered the palace and was considering killing him.

Xu Yunfan met Su Zhenhe near the White Jade Palace and revealed that he had reached the Marrow Cleansing Realm, prompting Su Zhenhe to explain the palace’s connection to an ancient search for immortality. The chapter ended as Xu Yunfan spotted seven figures climbing toward the palace.

• Xu Yunfan greeted Su Zhenhe, and his words dispelled the killing intent Su Zhenhe had harbored.
• Xu Yunfan revealed that he had reached the Marrow Cleansing Realm and demonstrated his power by blasting a hole through the stone wall beside Su Zhenhe.
• Su Zhenhe explained that the White Jade Palace had fallen into the secret realm two thousand years ago after a great battle over the final chance at immortality.
• Su Zhenhe said that elites from seven great sects had entered the palace, but none had ever returned.
• Xu Yunfan spotted seven figures rushing up the crumbling steps on the eastern side of the White Jade Palace.

Xu Yunfan watched Zhou Tianyan and the Nine Luminaries Sect force their way into the White Jade Palace, then rushed toward the entrance with Su Zhenhe. The palace's clear radiance surged against Xu Yunfan, leaving him facing the danger of the ancient script's killing art.

• Xu Yunfan let the Nine Luminaries Sect test the palace gates while Su Zhenhe warned him about Zhou Tianyan and the sect's strength.
• The palace struck Zhou Tianyan's disciples back with sword qi, but Zhou Tianyan drew the Nine Burning Blades and sacrificed his essence blood to attack the gates.
• Zhou Tianyan forced open a narrow gap with the divine weapon, entered the palace with his surviving disciples, and left the blade nearly shattered.
• Xu Yunfan hurried toward the palace with Su Zhenhe, who warned him that the entrance's clear radiance grew stronger when resisted.
• The ancient characters flared and pressed Xu Yunfan back as his Mystic Steel Hundred Refinements Body activated.

Xu Yunfan and Su Zhenhe entered the decaying White Jade Palace after Xu Yunfan withstood its protective radiance. Inside, they found the remains of a battle between the Sword Pavilion and the Nine Luminaries Sect, and Xu Yunfan suspected someone from the Nine Luminaries Sect had escaped alive.

• Xu Yunfan struck the palace doors, endured the White Jade Radiance, and watched the doors open as the Nine Burning Blades crumbled in his hands.
• Xu Yunfan entered the palace with Su Zhenhe, and the doors shut behind them.
• Xu Yunfan examined the palace’s failing jade pillars and formations while Zhou Tianyan’s group raced toward the central platform.
• Xu Yunfan and Su Zhenhe discovered five skeletons bearing signs of combat and identified them as members of the Sword Pavilion and Nine Luminaries Sect.
• Xu Yunfan recognized that a Sword Pavilion elder had died from profound sword qi and concluded that someone from the Nine Luminaries Sect had survived the battle.

Xu Yunfan and Su Zhenhe discovered the remains of the Mystic Truth Sect’s third sect master and a token taken during an ancient battle, then followed Zhou Tianyan’s group into the depths of the White Jade Palace. They reached a ruined hall and found a jade-skinned man sitting on a platform, apparently alive despite having no breath or vitality.

• Xu Yunfan pointed out a skeleton in Mystic Truth Sect robes, and Su Zhenhe recognized its wounds as the work of Nine Luminaries Burning Heaven Qi.
• Xu Yunfan took a Bronze Token from the skeleton despite Su Zhenhe’s request to examine it, and suspected it was connected to the White Jade Palace rather than the Mystic Truth Sect.
• Su Zhenhe identified the skeleton as Azure Peak True Person, the Mystic Truth Sect’s third sect master, who had died after seizing something during the battle two thousand years earlier.
• Xu Yunfan and Su Zhenhe followed Zhou Tianyan’s group through the palace and entered a decayed grand hall.
• Xu Yunfan saw a man sitting on an untouched white-jade platform and realized that, despite his lifelike appearance, the man had no breath or vitality.

Xu Yunfan and Su Zhenhe found Zhou Tianyan’s group guarding a man undergoing Achieving Immortality through Corpse Dissolution on a white jade platform. After Zhou Tianyan boasted of his strength and threatened them, Xu Yunfan defeated him and disarmed the Nine Luminaries Sect disciples, leaving the group battered but alive.

• Xu Yunfan and Su Zhenhe arrived at the white jade platform, where Su Zhenhe recognized the scene as Achieving Immortality through Corpse Dissolution.
• Zhou Tianyan mocked Su Zhenhe and eyed Xu Yunfan’s Dragon Scale Armor with greed, then declared he had reached the peak of the Flesh Refining Realm.
• Xu Yunfan asked Zhou Tianyan’s realm, then attacked and overwhelmed him with the Crimson Fire Dragon Devouring Mace.
• After Zhou Tianyan ordered his disciples to attack, Xu Yunfan used his armor and Pure Yang Inner Breath to repel them and disarm the group, leaving them injured but alive.

Xu Yunfan defeated Zhou Tianyan and the Nine Luminaries Sect disciples, whose blood was drained by the Blood Sacrifice Jade platform to revive the man on its stone seat. After learning that the token bore the ancient characters “Primordial,” Xu Yunfan killed Su Zhenhe to keep his presence in the secret realm secret.

• Zhou Tianyan landed on the White Jade Platform, where the Blood Sacrifice Jade drained his blood qi and revealed that his armor had been a blood lure.
• Xu Yunfan sent the remaining Nine Luminaries disciples onto the platform, and their blood flowed toward the stone seat as the man there showed signs of revival.
• Su Zhenhe identified the platform as Blood Sacrifice Jade, an ancient material made from the blood essence of countless people to prolong life.
• Xu Yunfan showed Su Zhenhe the token from Azure Peak True Person, and Su Zhenhe read its characters as “Primordial.”
• Xu Yunfan killed Su Zhenhe so no one could reveal that he had survived the secret realm.

Xu Yunfan resisted the Blood Sacrifice Jade’s pull and climbed its steps after a woman urged him to stop the seated youth before he awakened. The youth opened his eyes, claimed Xu Yunfan’s Primordial Origin token, and used a hand seal to freeze Xu Yunfan’s Marrow Cleansing Realm body.

• Xu Yunfan examined Su Zhenhe’s sword, took it and its scabbard, and realized its sharpness could cut him despite his powerful body.
• Xu Yunfan tested the Blood Sacrifice Jade and found his Marrow Cleansing Realm blood and marrow could resist its suction.
• The woman in Xu Yunfan’s mind urged him to climb the platform, warning that the world would become a cage if the youth awakened.
• Xu Yunfan climbed the Blood Sacrifice Jade steps, breaking a thousand-year restriction as he reached the platform.
• The seated youth opened his eyes, identified Xu Yunfan’s Primordial Origin token as his own, and said he preferred Xu Yunfan’s body to the nine disciples’ Innate Primordial Qi.
• The youth formed a hand seal that made the Blood Sacrifice Jade patterns glow and froze Xu Yunfan’s body.

A shattered young man attempted to seize Xu Yunfan’s body, but the Apex Path Remains drew his soul into a blood-red dreamscape where Yu Congling confronted him. Their battle left the young man’s possession attempt thwarted, with Yu Congling revealing a powerful sword form.

• The young man used the Azure Peak Mountain Suppression Art and a bridge of clear radiance to begin seizing Xu Yunfan’s body.
• The Apex Path Remains wrapped around Xu Yunfan and trapped the young man’s soul in a blood-red dreamscape.
• Yu Congling appeared on the white-bone altar and identified the young man as a member of the Primal Devil Sect.
• The young man attacked Yu Congling with the Primal Beginning Nine Tribulations and a Three Heads Six Arms demon god phantom while Xu Yunfan defiantly gestured at him.
• Yu Congling blocked the soul-eroding demonic light with the Myriad Tribulations Unyielding sword form.