Chapter Summaries

After enduring a secret medicinal treatment that brought him close to Marrow Cleansing Realm perfection, Xu Yunfan attended a gathering of Dao Sect leaders. Bi Yuan announced that Xu Yunfan would enter the Sword Burial Abyss at noon and could claim two divine weapons, leaving the hall divided over the opportunity.

• Xu Yunfan swallowed a Purple Gold Bone Forging Pill and endured the Eight Treasures Cleansing Heaven Soup treatment as Azure Phoenix and Red Peony refined his body and harmonized his cultivation arts.
• Xu Yunfan concealed his foundation with the Dragon Tiger Hibernation Art and went to Qingwei Hall to meet Bi Yuan and the Dao Sect elders.
• Bi Yuan announced that the fiendish qi tide would be lowest at noon and that Xu Yunfan could take two divine weapons using Shen Wuyai's Sword Burial Abyss quota.
• Xu Yunfan thanked Shen Wuyai, while Bi Yuan noticed his concealed aura and chose not to expose it.
• Li Zhi, Zhou Xuanqing, and Cui Yu openly supported Xu Yunfan's entry, and more than half the elders followed their lead.

Xu Yunfan entered the Sword Burial Abyss to choose a weapon and discovered a bronze platform filled with divine weapons at its bottom. A mysterious white-haired old man followed him there and pointed out that the finest weapons lay even deeper in the chasm.

• Bi Yuan led the elders and Xu Yunfan to the Sword Burial Abyss and explained its history and the weapons within it.
• Bi Yuan opened the way down and warned Xu Yunfan that he had four hours and that weapons chose their masters too.
• Xu Yunfan descended through the abyss, passing a white-haired old man who silently began following him.
• Xu Yunfan reached a bronze platform where divine weapons floated among seven chained pillars.
• The old man appeared beside Xu Yunfan and pointed toward the chasm beneath the platform, telling him the finest weapons were down there.

Xu Yunfan encountered Heaven Sword Dugu Jiu at the bottom of the Sword Burial Abyss and learned that Dugu Jiu had been waiting for the Small World Secret Realm to open. When Xu Yunfan revealed that the Profound Heaven Mirror had destroyed most of it, Dugu Jiu erupted in fury, and the abyss shook around them.

• Dugu Jiu appeared beside Xu Yunfan, whose concealed aura and Pure Yang True Qi were suppressed by the old man's sword intent.
• Dugu Jiu recognized the marrow-cleansing force Xu Yunfan cultivated and called him another of his kind.
• Xu Yunfan identified the old man as Heaven Sword Dugu Jiu, who confirmed he had hidden in the abyss to temper his sword intent.
• Dugu Jiu asked whether the Small World Secret Realm had opened, and Xu Yunfan said the Profound Heaven Mirror had destroyed most of it.
• Dugu Jiu flew into a rage, causing the abyss's baleful aura and bronze chains to surge as Bi Yuan watched outside.

At the bottom of Sword Burial Abyss, Xu Yunfan accepted Dugu Jiu’s Ten Extremes Martial Dao and continued searching for a divine weapon. He reached the abyss’s deepest point and found four weapons suspended in baleful aura.

• Cui Yu and Bi Yuan noticed that the baleful aura in Sword Burial Abyss was unusually restless and suspected a divine weapon had awakened.
• Dugu Jiu halted his sword intent, revealed that his failing body could no longer withstand it, and offered to teach Xu Yunfan the Ten Extremes Martial Dao.
• Xu Yunfan knelt and accepted Dugu Jiu’s offer; Dugu Jiu vanished, leaving behind a Beast Hide Scroll containing the martial art.
• Xu Yunfan obtained the Ten Extremes Martial Dao through his Attribute Panel, then headed deeper into the abyss to find a divine weapon.
• Xu Yunfan reached the abyss’s deepest point and saw four divine weapons floating in a vortex of dark purple baleful aura, including a thunder-patterned staff marked “Thunderstrike.”

Xu Yunfan subdued the Rift Sky Piercing Cloud Bow and gained the reluctant acknowledgment of the Mountain Shaking Sea Suppressing Hammers in Sword Burial Abyss. He emerged with both weapons, and Bi Yuan questioned whether the bow had fully accepted him.

• Xu Yunfan forced the Rift Sky Piercing Cloud Bow to settle by gripping it with Pure Yang True Qi, though it dimmed after resisting him.
• Xu Yunfan used his Pure Yang True Qi and Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique to earn the twin hammers’ tentative acknowledgment.
• As the abyss’s baleful aura churned and chains clattered, Xu Yunfan left with the bow on his back and the hammers in hand.
• Xu Yunfan returned to the bronze walkway, where Bi Yuan and Cui Yu saw his new weapons.
• Cui Yu identified the hammers as Mountain Suppressing Venerable’s and the bow as Arrow God Luo Jiuxiao’s, while Bi Yuan asked whether the bow had fully acknowledged Xu Yunfan.

Xu Yunfan claimed the Rift Sky Piercing Cloud Bow and continued cultivating in Sword Burial Abyss. After three months of training, his Classic of Change Marrow Cleansing Skill reached mastery, transforming his bones and senses.

• Xu Yunfan declared that he would tame the Rift Sky Piercing Cloud Bow by tempering it with Pure Yang True Qi and battle.
• Bi Yuan praised Xu Yunfan's courage, while Cui Yu noted the bow could become a great weapon if he mastered it.
• Xu Yunfan cultivated on the Mystic Jade Platform with the aid of the Purple Gold Bone Forging Pill and the Ten Thousand Year Ginseng King.
• Xu Yunfan's Classic of Change Marrow Cleansing Skill reached mastery, forming Jade Marrow Golden Bones and strengthening his body.
• Xu Yunfan discovered that his heightened senses let him discern distant movements, spiritual qi, scents, and details in stone.

Xu Yunfan reached great completion in the Marrow Cleansing Realm, while the Attribute Panel’s memories of thirty years of arduous cultivation left him reflecting on his former limitations. Back at his courtyard, he examined the Dao Sect’s divine weapons before Qing Song arrived with news of a major opportunity for the sect.

• Xu Yunfan completed the Marrow Cleansing Realm and felt his transformed body and Root Bone aptitude.
• The Attribute Panel gave Xu Yunfan thirty years of memories depicting the relentless effort it had taken to attain marrow-cleansing great completion.
• Xu Yunfan resolved that his martial path had truly begun and returned to his private courtyard to test his weapons and prepare to cultivate the Ten Extremes Martial Dao.
• Xu Yunfan examined the Mountain Shaking Sea Suppressing Twin Hammers and recalled that Bi Yuan had sent him manuals for their hammer art and the Rift Sky Piercing Cloud Bow Art.
• Qing Song rushed into the courtyard and told Xu Yunfan that a promising opportunity could secure the Dao Sect’s resources for ten years.

Xu Yunfan astonished Bi Yuan and Cui Yu by reaching great completion in the Marrow Cleansing Realm in only three months, and Bi Yuan advised him on his next cultivation stage. Bi Yuan then revealed the Dao Sect’s plan to move against Jade Capital Province amid the Empress’s failing rule, and Xu Yunfan agreed to hear him out.

• Qing Song led Xu Yunfan to Qingwei Hall, where Bi Yuan inspected him and discovered his extraordinary Marrow Cleansing Realm cultivation.
• Bi Yuan and Cui Yu marveled that Xu Yunfan had achieved a Flawless True Body in ninety days, surpassing the Dao Sect’s historical prodigies.
• Bi Yuan outlined the three key requirements for Xu Yunfan to advance to the Viscera Training Realm and tested his instinctive protective golden patterns.
• Bi Yuan showed Xu Yunfan a map and explained that the Empress’s weakened rule and the depleted Imperial Court Secret Guards created an opportunity for the Dao Sect to act in Jade Capital Province.
• Bi Yuan explained the Dao Sect’s past opposition to the Empress’s sacrifices and warned that a public struggle over the Heaven and Earth Primal Spirit could cause even greater losses.
• Xu Yunfan acknowledged Bi Yuan’s explanation and said he understood.

Xu Yunfan learned that he would travel to Jade Capital Province and compete for the title of Martial Champion while secretly carrying out three tasks for Bi Yuan. In Jade Capital City, the dying Empress confronted the political turmoil surrounding the imperial examinations and the rival powers gathering within Great Zhou.

• Bi Yuan told Xu Yunfan to depart in three days, protect his life, and use the Martial Arts Grand Ceremony to pursue three secret tasks while openly competing for Martial Champion.
• The chapter described how the Empress's failing health and Great Zhou's weakening national fortune had emboldened factions across the provinces to prepare for a struggle over Jade Capital City.
• Pei Jian reported the imperial examination results to the Empress in Purple Pole Hall, where she rejected Cao An's medicine and coughed up corrosive black blood.
• Guo Lang told the Empress that an unusual star had appeared in the Celestial Market Enclosure in connection with the examinations, and she revealed that factions from several provinces and overseas had sent candidates.

The Empress learned that someone had tampered with the earth veins beneath the Imperial Examination Hall and decreed that she would attend the Martial Arts Grand Ceremony in one month. Meanwhile, Xu Yunfan refined ten kinds of force qi on the Dao Sect’s disguised caravan, reaching the initial stage of the Ten Extremes Martial Dao.

• The Empress used the bone staff to drain vitality from refined bronze and discussed the Dao Sect’s plans with her officials.
• A guard reported suspected tampering with the earth veins beneath the Imperial Examination Hall, and the Empress announced she would attend the Martial Arts Grand Ceremony in one month.
• On the road to Jade Capital, Xu Yunfan cultivated ten streams of force qi and used Ten Extremes Clash to temper his organs.
• Li Haomiao asked why Xu Yunfan’s force qi looked like molten copper, and Xu Yunfan demonstrated a sword strike that split a falling willow leaf into three pieces with different effects.

Xu Yunfan and his companions reached Jade Capital City, where he discovered a damaged formation and sensed powerful martial artists hidden among the crowds. After spotting Celestial Pivot Sect disciples leaving the city, Xu Yunfan entered cautiously, aware that his past killings had made them his enemies.

• Xu Yunfan examined Jade Capital City's spiritual formation and noticed a violent fracture at its eastern Azure Dragon position.
• Li Haomiao and Fang Mushan discussed the city's defenses and the supreme experts who could determine a dynasty's fate.
• Xu Yunfan sensed powerful martial artists near the gates, while Li Haomiao identified a sugar figurine seller as the secret guard Broken Finger Yama.
• Celestial Pivot Sect disciples left through a side gate, and Fang Mushan and Li Haomiao condemned their role in helping the Empress rise to power.
• Xu Yunfan restrained his reaction to the disciples and followed the convoy into Jade Capital City.

Xu Yunfan arrived in Jade Capital and encountered powerful figures from Penglai Pavilion and other factions as he assessed the city’s hidden dangers. He set out to explore with Dao Sect disciples, carrying a map of the factions’ strongholds.

• Li Haomiao recognized the young woman at the Drunken Immortal Inn as a member of Penglai Pavilion, and her gaze unsettled both him and Xu Yunfan.
• The young woman vanished from the inn, leaving warm Snow Sprout Tea arranged in a broken hexagram, while Xu Yunfan sensed she was a Ninth Realm expert.
• Fang Mushan pointed out laborers whose strength revealed ties to Amitabha Temple, and Li Haomiao said Jade Capital’s civil examinations had drawn many factions to the city.
• Xu Yunfan observed that Jade Capital’s spiritual energy network remained chaotic beneath its restored streets after the failed blood sacrifice at the Star Gazing Platform.
• Li Haomiao and Fang Mushan declined Xu Yunfan’s invitation to stroll, explaining that they needed to contact old ministers and warning him to be cautious.
• Dao Sect disciples volunteered to guide Xu Yunfan and showed him a map marking various factions’ overt and covert strongholds.

Xu Yunfan visited Long Wind Tavern with Dao Sect disciples, where he exchanged insults with hostile disciples in the next room. He smashed through the wall with his hammer and faced a green-robed scholar as his attack gathered force.

• Xu Yunfan accepted a silk cloth from the Dao Sect disciples and toured Jade Capital’s bustling Vermillion Bird Avenue with them.
• The round-faced disciple led Xu Yunfan to Long Wind Tavern, where Xu Yunfan recognized the Heavenly Crafting Cave’s handiwork in the building.
• At the tavern, a neighboring group mocked the Dao Sect, and Xu Yunfan silenced them with a burst of qi before the meal began.
• The neighboring group resumed its insults during dinner, and Xu Yunfan called them trash.
• Xu Yunfan smashed through the wall with his Mountain Shaking Sea Suppressing Hammer and confronted a green-robed scholar, gathering force for a strike.

Xu Yunfan’s hammer strike devastated the Long Wind Tavern and defeated Jiang Jingguo, a True Inheritance Disciple of the Sword Pavilion. After stopping Chen Hong from attacking Jiang, Xu Yunfan revealed that he had noticed Chen’s probing behavior, leaving the Dao Sect disciple visibly shaken.

• Xu Yunfan struck Jiang Jingguo with the Mountain Shaking Sea Suppressing Hammers, shattering his sword and collapsing much of the tavern’s third floor.
• Xu Yunfan reflected that the hammers had drawn on the earth veins and amplified his restrained strike, causing far more destruction than he intended.
• Jiang Jingguo identified himself as a True Inheritance Disciple of the Sword Pavilion and challenged Xu Yunfan to kill him.
• Chen Hong drew his sword to attack Jiang, but Xu Yunfan stopped and subdued him with a grip on his shoulder and neck.
• Xu Yunfan recalled Chen Hong’s suspicious probing and gave him a casual, intimidating glance, making Chen’s smile freeze in fear.

Xu Yunfan faced Jiang Tianyang after Jiang Jingguo killed himself, while hidden observers watched the confrontation as part of a larger scheme. The chapter left Xu and Jiang Tianyang clashing in a fight to the death.

• Xu Yunfan questioned Jiang Jingguo, who condemned him and severed his own heart meridians with the Jade Severing Art.
• Jiang Tianyang arrived, found his son dead, and unleashed the Seven Kill Sword against Xu Yunfan.
• Xu Yunfan suspected Jiang Jingguo’s suicide and Jiang Tianyang’s arrival were part of an intricate trap.
• Hidden observers discussed Xu Yunfan’s chances, and a brocade-robed youth revealed Xu’s former Jiang Manor identity token.
• Jiang Tianyang attacked with Seven Kill, Soul Slaughter and Army-Breaker, while Xu Yunfan blocked his blows with the Mountain Shaking Sea Suppressing Hammer.

Xu Yunfan defeated Jiang Tianyang after a destructive three-hundred-exchange fight, then used the Lin Character Secret to suppress his emotions and enter a state close to flow. He left Chen Hong and the Dao Sect disciples to handle compensation while he began absorbing everything around him.

• Xu Yunfan fought Jiang Tianyang for three hundred exchanges, and their blows devastated the Long Wind Tavern and the surrounding buildings.
• Xu Yunfan warned Jiang Tianyang to retreat, but the baleful qi of the Seven Kill Sword drove the elder to attack again.
• Xu Yunfan shattered Jiang Tianyang's Broken Jade Sword with his second hammer after Jiang Tianyang used the Sword Pavilion forbidden art Weapon Dissolution.
• Xu Yunfan struck Jiang Tianyang with his third hammer, broke his arms, and pinned him in a deep pit beneath his hammer.
• Xu Yunfan ordered Chen Hong and the Dao Sect disciples to handle compensation, then formed the Lin Word Seal to quiet his emotions and enter a state close to flow.

Xu Yunfan fired the Rift Sky Piercing Cloud Bow across Jade Capital, destroying the Waterside Pavilion and killing or burying the figures inside before a city enforcer confronted him. Bi Sheng intervened to protect Xu Yunfan from Su Wanqing, and the chapter ended as she reacted to the two men exchanging words.

• Xu Yunfan used the Rift Sky Piercing Cloud Bow to shoot through the Waterside Pavilion, seven buildings, and Jade Capital’s outer gate.
• Su Wanqing appeared and attacked Xu Yunfan with Frost Blades, accusing him of making an unauthorized move in the city.
• Bi Sheng arrived, dispelled Su Wanqing’s Frost Blades, and relieved the pressure pinning Xu Yunfan in place.
• Xu Yunfan recognized Bi Sheng as the Dao Sect expert secretly protecting him and recalled Bi Yuan’s assurances.
• Bi Sheng scolded Xu Yunfan for his destructive shot, then remarked that it resembled the bearing of the Rift Sky Bow.
• Su Wanqing’s expression turned cold as she watched Xu Yunfan and Bi Sheng exchange glances.

Bi Sheng fought Su Wanqing after she accused Dao Sect disciples of causing destruction in the imperial city, then privately pressured her to meet him at midnight with the Profound Heaven Treasure Record. Su Wanqing left after learning he knew the Celestial Pivot Sect had secretly found half of the Great Zhou Dragon Vein Map, and Bi Sheng invited Xu Yunfan to witness what came next.

• Bi Sheng shielded Xu Yunfan and accused the Waterside Pavilion’s conspirators of being Great Qian remnants, while reminding Su Wanqing of the Celestial Pivot Sect’s past ties to them.
• Su Wanqing challenged Bi Sheng, and he used his rusted iron sword and Reverse Evolution - Shifting Stars to seize control of her frost swords.
• Su Wanqing formed a six-armed Profound Nether Dharma Idol, but Bi Sheng’s Ninth Realm Sword Dao shattered it and wounded her.
• Bi Sheng secretly ordered Su Wanqing to meet him at midnight at the Gui Water Position with the Profound Heaven Treasure Record, threatening to expose her sect’s possession of half of the Great Zhou Dragon Vein Map.
• Su Wanqing withdrew, and Bi Sheng told Xu Yunfan he would take him to watch a grand show that night.

After Bi Sheng warned Xu Yunfan that his actions had drawn the Empress’s attention and that many enemies wanted him dead, Xu Yunfan rescued the Brocade-Robed Youth from the rubble and took him away. The Imperial City Bureau arrived too late, then learned the youth might be the third young master of Mu King Manor.

• Bi Sheng told Xu Yunfan to be cautious in Jade Capital and warned that enemies beyond the Celestial Pivot Sect wanted him dead.
• Xu Yunfan gave Chen Hong money to pay double compensation for the damage, then went to the collapsed Waterside Pavilion.
• Xu Yunfan found the Brocade-Robed Youth alive beneath the rubble, suppressed his Jade Phosphorous Chains, and knocked him unconscious after the youth attacked with poisoned needles.
• Xu Yunfan ordered the Dao Sect disciples to restrain the youth and take him back to their compound, then left before the Imperial City Bureau guards arrived.
• The captain told his deputy to report that evidence of Sword Pavilion and Celestial Pivot Sect collusion had been taken, then learned the youth might be the third young master of Mu King Manor.

Xu Yunfan tortured Zhao Yu and tore the demonic Jade Phosphorous Chains from his body before demanding to know why Zhao Yu had plotted against him. Zhao Yu confessed that he resented Xu Yunfan’s status and the respect he received despite being born a lowly household slave.

• The commandant withdrew after seeing the Dao Sect disciples and ordered his forces to retreat.
• Xu Yunfan dragged the nearly dead Zhao Yu into the Dao Sect outpost and used cold water and threats to force him to speak.
• Xu Yunfan crushed Zhao Yu’s leg and tore the regenerative Jade Phosphorous Chains from his body, then examined the strange, spiritually corrupted organ.
• Xu Yunfan ground the bones in Zhao Yu’s right arm until Zhao Yu broke down and agreed to answer his questions.
• Zhao Yu said he had plotted against Xu Yunfan because he resented that Xu Yunfan had become a Dao Sect true disciple and earned respect from the Imperial City Bureau and Zhao Yu’s father.