Chapter Summaries

As assassins attacked Chu Qing and his companions at Heavenly Fragrance House, Cao Qiupu rescued Ling Fei and joined the group’s escape. Seeing Divine Blade City consumed by violence, Chu Qing chose to protect its common people, and after two hours of fighting he encountered the Alliance of Righteousness’s leader, Fang Tianrui.

• During Ling Fei’s auction, Chu Qing exposed an assassin disguised as a servant, and black-clad attackers stormed Heavenly Fragrance House.
• Cao Qiupu rescued Ling Fei on Brother Bai and rejoined Chu Qing’s group as they broke out of the building.
• Chu Qing saw an old man and child threatened by looters, killed their attacker, and decided to help the city’s residents while Bian Cheng and Cao Qiupu joined him.
• Chu Qing’s group fought through Divine Blade City for two hours, escorting common people while growing exhausted and crossing only a quarter of the city.
• Fang Tianrui, leader of the Alliance of Righteousness, appeared before Chu Qing’s group and declared that anyone who harmed common people would become the alliance’s enemy.

Chu Qing helped Fang Tianrui seize Divine Blade Hall and end the slaughter in Divine Blade City, then refused an offer to join the Alliance of Righteousness. Back at the inn, he told Wen Rou and her senior brothers that the Earth Character Scroll was connected to the Wen family, prompting them to seek news from their sect.

• Fang Tianrui admitted he wanted to take over Divine Blade Hall and asked Chu Qing and the others to help protect the commoners; Chu Qing agreed.
• Chu Qing, Cao Qiupu, and the Alliance of Righteousness fought through the night, subdued Divine Blade Hall, and ended the chaos by dawn.
• Chu Qing urged Fang Tianrui to protect the commoners, refused his offer to become Vice Alliance Leader, and parted from Cao Qiupu, who spoke of his childhood friend Ling Fei.
• Chu Qing returned to the inn, cleaned up, and met with Wen Rou and her two senior brothers.
• Chu Qing revealed that the Earth Character Scroll was connected to the Wen family, and Bian Cheng and Mo Duxing hurried to check for messages from their sect.

Wu Qianhuan learned that the Earth Character Scroll and the Recluse of Heavenly Secrets’ legacy were tied to Luochen Mountain Manor, and resolved to master her martial art rather than risk burdening Chu Qing. Meanwhile, Chu Qing and his companions camped after leaving Divine Blade City and continued toward Luochen Mountain Manor as rumors of the Heavenly Secrets Token spread.

• Wu Qianhuan struggled to study the Moon Pointing Profound Skill while thinking about Chu Qing, then met Zuo Wenchuan at the Moon Gazing Pavilion.
• Zuo Wenchuan told Wu Qianhuan that the Earth Character Scroll had resurfaced and that the Recluse of Heavenly Secrets had left his legacy in Heavenly Secrets Valley to Wen Tianheng of 128-Mile Dustfall Mountain Manor.
• Zuo Wenchuan set out for Luochen Mountain Manor to investigate, while Wu Qianhuan sent the news home and wrote Chu Qing a letter before returning to her cultivation.
• Abbess Yetan watched Wu Qianhuan become absorbed in the Moon Pointing Profound Skill, then quietly departed.
• Chu Qing and his companions camped in a ruined dwelling after leaving Divine Blade City, while Bian Cheng complained about the devastation there.
• Chu Qing pondered Dong Xingzhi’s repeated return and the reappearance of the Nine Profound Divine Skill, as Bian Cheng and Mo Duxing continued with him and Wen Rou toward Luochen Mountain Manor.

Chu Qing and his companions reasoned that Wen Rou’s pursuers might be trying to use her to threaten Luochen Mountain Manor over the Heavenly Secrets Token, then took shelter from the rain. Their watch was interrupted by a man in white fighting sixteen pink-clad followers of Old Immortal Jade Dragon, who had come to abduct him.

• Chu Qing suspected that the assassins seeking to capture Wen Rou wanted to use her against Manor Lord Wen, possibly because of the Heavenly Secrets Token, and warned that their journey to Luochen Mountain Manor would be dangerous.
• Chu Qing and Wen Rou took the first watch while Bian Cheng and Mo Duxing rested in the rain; Wen Rou thanked Chu Qing for saving her and asked him to teach her expressions.
• Chu Qing and Wen Rou detected approaching strangers, but a man in white arrived on the roof and killed an attacker who tried to ambush him.
• Sixteen men dressed in pink demanded that the man in white return with them to Old Immortal Jade Dragon, and he attacked them with a sword-like folding fan.
• The man in white defeated several of the pink-clad men and refused to surrender, while Chu Qing and Bian Cheng recognized Old Immortal Jade Dragon’s reputation for abducting handsome men.

Chu Qing and his companions met Hua Jinnian, escaped Old Immortal Jade Dragon’s pursuit, and traveled toward Luochen Mountain Manor. The chapter ended when Chu Qing chased down a man who had abducted an unconscious Wen Rou, just as the man attacked him.

• Old Immortal Jade Dragon’s disciples tried to force Hua Jinnian to return with them, but the white-clad man killed them and introduced himself as Hua Jinnian.
• Hua Jinnian told Chu Qing and Bian Cheng he planned to seek the Heavenly Secrets Token at Luochen Mountain Manor, and they discussed the Nine Profound Divine Skill.
• The next morning, Mo Duxing woke with a crick in his neck, and Hua Jinnian joined Chu Qing’s group on their journey to Luochen Mountain Manor.
• Chu Qing and his companions crossed into Luochen Mountain Manor’s territory and reached a lively town after leaving Divine Blade Hall’s gloomier lands.
• At the inn that night, Chu Qing heard Wen Rou’s window open and saw a man in black carrying her away.
• Chu Qing caught Wen Rou as she slipped free of the man’s grasp, but she was unconscious, and the man struck at Chu Qing.

Chu Qing pursued the poisoned attacker who had abducted Wen Rou, captured him, and recovered the poison and its antidote. After testing the antidote on livestock, Chu Qing gave it to Wen Rou, who woke up with the others beside her.

• Chu Qing struck the attacker with the Heavenly Frost Fist, and the man severed his arm and escaped while Bian Cheng carried the poisoned Wen Rou back to the inn.
• Chu Qing tracked the attacker into a forest, spotted his poison trap, and used the Azure Void Palm to knock him down.
• The attacker revealed that he had targeted Wen Rou to force Wen Fusheng to surrender the Heavenly Secrets Token and claimed to be a disciple of the Hundred Skeletons Demonic Lord.
• Chu Qing took the antidote and poison from the attacker, immobilized him, tested the antidote on him, and killed him after confirming it revived him.
• Chu Qing returned to the inn and told Mo Duxing and Bian Cheng what had happened; Bian Cheng explained that the Hundred Skeletons Demonic Lord's seven disciples sought treasures to bargain for their master's freedom.
• Chu Qing tested the antidote on livestock, gave it to Wen Rou, and waited with Mo Duxing and Bian Cheng until she woke up.

Chu Qing and his companions learned that Wen Rou had been targeted because of the Heavenly Secrets Token, then encountered Iron Blood Hall members who claimed they had come to escort her home. The chapter ended with Hua Jinnian realizing Wen Rou was the missing Eldest Young Lady of Luochen Mountain Manor and had heard his scheme.

• Wen Rou recovered from a potent sleeping drug, and Chu Qing told her to pack away the medicines he had brought back.
• Bian Cheng urged Wen Rou to send Manor Lord Wen a message requesting an escort, while Hua Jinnian shared rumors about the Heavenly Secrets Token and Wen Rou's whereabouts.
• Hua Jinnian described how he might save Wen Rou and gain the token, prompting Bian Cheng to consider using a staged rescue to rid the manor of the token.
• A group occupied the inn, and Chu Qing caught their banner spear, which revealed they belonged to Iron Blood Hall.
• Cheng arrived with a saber wielder and a swordsman, called Wen Rou his niece, and tried to take her away; Bian Cheng blocked him but was knocked back by Cheng's punch.
• Hua Jinnian realized Wen Rou was the Eldest Young Lady of Luochen Mountain Manor and understood that she had heard his plan.

Chu Qing defended Wen Rou by accepting Cheng Tieshan’s challenge and defeating the Iron Blood Hall’s swordsman, then trading saber techniques with its saber wielder. Cheng Tieshan recognized Chu Qing as the young master involved in the First Under Heaven Gathering and the fall of Divine Blade Hall, leaving their promised match about to begin.

• Cheng Tieshan offered to take Wen Rou only if Chu Qing defeated his saber wielder and swordsman, then survived a three-move match with him.
• Chu Qing accepted Wen Rou’s approval and went outside to face Cheng Tieshan’s two fighters.
• Chu Qing overwhelmed the swordsman with the Golden Crow Saber Technique and knocked his sword away, prompting the man to admit defeat.
• The saber wielder tested Chu Qing with his saber intent, and their exchange helped Chu Qing refine the fusion of his saber techniques before the man withdrew.
• Chu Qing called on Cheng Tieshan to fight, but Cheng Tieshan first asked whether Chu Qing was the young master who had helped Fang Tianrui seize Divine Blade Hall.

Chu Qing traded a palm strike with Cheng Tieshan, Iron Blood Hall’s deputy hall master, after refusing his offer to marry the Hall Master’s daughter. Cheng Tieshan ended the contest and hurried away, revealing that Chu Qing’s Heavenly Frost Fist had injured his palm badly enough to make two more strikes life-threatening.

• Cheng Tieshan called Chu Qing the “Mad Blade” and asked whether he would marry Iron Blood Hall’s Hall Master’s daughter, but Chu Qing refused because he already had a marriage contract.
• Cheng Tieshan attacked Chu Qing with a powerful palm strike, and Chu Qing met it with his Heavenly Frost Fist without retreating.
• Cheng Tieshan ended the contest without delivering his remaining two moves, and Chu Qing praised him as a man of his word.
• Chu Qing advised Bian Cheng not to summon Luochen Mountain Manor’s people, fearing they were too occupied with Iron Blood Hall’s incursion and that additional visitors could worsen the danger to Wen Rou.
• After leading his people out of town, Cheng Tieshan revealed that Chu Qing’s fist had left a cold imprint in his palm and that another two strikes could have cost him his position—and his life—as deputy hall master.

Chu Qing accepted Xu Mao’s request to rescue his sister, Xu Qiaohui, from the Mad Beggar Ling Beichen, who had abducted her and killed her guards. After learning that Xu Qiaohui would die if not rescued before the fifteenth, Chu Qing prepared to take the job as an assassination commission.

• Cheng Tieshan fled with One Saber and One Sword, refusing to explain the Heavenly Secrets Token and fearing Chu Qing would pursue him.
• Chu Qing’s group left town for Luochen Mountain Manor, while Hua Jinnian continued traveling with them and warned them that someone was following.
• Xu Mao collapsed after following the group and begged Chu Qing to save Xu Qiaohui, whom an old beggar had abducted seven days earlier.
• Xu Mao identified the abductor as an old beggar with a crimson lump on his forehead, and Chu Qing recognized him as Mad Beggar Ling Beichen.
• Chu Qing agreed to help Xu Mao, explaining that he would kill Ling Beichen for payment, then summoned Mo Duxing, Bian Cheng, Wen Rou, and Hua Jinnian.
• A system prompt appeared, offering Chu Qing the commission to assassinate Mad Beggar Ling Beichen.

Chu Qing and his companions continued toward Luochen Mountain Manor, learning about Mad Beggar Ling Beichen and encountering people from Longyang Mountain near Tianxing Mountain. The chapter ended as Hua Jinnian attacked a pink-clad figure who had mocked him and urged him to meet the Old Immortal.

• Bian Cheng told Chu Qing about Ling Beichen's rise as the Foremost Sword of Taiheng, the deaths of his wife and child, and his later killings as the Mad Beggar.
• Chu Qing decided Ling Beichen should be killed and that he would try to save anyone else from Ling Beichen's hands.
• Hua Jinnian asked Chu Qing to take him as a disciple, then nearly accepted Mo Duxing before Bian Cheng explained the Great Easy Sect would not accept someone already skilled in martial arts.
• The group bought a carriage, traveled without further obstruction, and reached the foot of Tianxing Mountain in less than two days.
• Wen Rou recalled the story of Star Picking Lake as the carriage approached Luochen Mountain Manor.
• A person from Longyang Mountain mocked Hua Jinnian and urged him to meet the Old Immortal, so Hua Jinnian leaped forward and thrust at the pink-clad figure with his folding fan.

Hua Jinnian fought a Longyang Mountain disciple who tried to drug and capture him, but Chu Qing intervened and killed the attackers. As the carriage continued toward Tianxing Mountain, Chu Qing offered to kill Old Immortal Jade Dragon for a fee, then encountered Cao Qiupu and Miss Ling Fei on their way to a martial contest for marriage.

• Hua Jinnian used his Non-One Sword Technique to wound the man in pink, who scattered sedative smoke and tried to cripple him.
• Chu Qing saved Hua Jinnian with a saber strike, then killed the Longyang Mountain disciples who attacked him and finished off the man in pink.
• The onlookers recognized Chu Qing as the Mad Blade Third Young Master, and he said he intended to deal with Old Immortal Jade Dragon as well.
• On the way to Tianxing Mountain, Chu Qing offered to kill Old Immortal Jade Dragon for Hua Jinnian in exchange for payment.
• Cao Qiupu and Miss Ling Fei met the carriage and explained that they were heading to a martial contest for marriage, prompting Chu Qing to ask what it was.

Chu Qing and his companions reached Luochen Mountain Manor amid rumors of a martial contest for Wen Kerén and the Heavenly Secrets Token. They learned that Wen Fusheng had been assassinated, and Wen Rou brought Chu Qing to see her injured father, where a guard blocked his way.

• Cao Qiupu told the group that Wen Kaiyuan had arranged a martial contest to find a husband for Wen Kerén, with unspecified gifts for the winner.
• Wen Kaiyuan welcomed Wen Rou and her companions, then revealed that Wen Fusheng had been assassinated the previous night.
• Wen Rou insisted on visiting her father and took Chu Qing with her, while Wen Kaiyuan arranged lodging for the others.
• Chu Qing observed Luochen Mountain Manor's formidable defenses and questioned Wen Kaiyuan about the absent Third Master.
• Wen Kerén ran to Wen Rou and begged her to stop the family from making her marry.
• A black-clad guard barred Chu Qing from entering Wen Fusheng's room, and Chu Qing asked Wen Rou whether she truly wanted him to go inside.

Chu Qing accompanied Wen Rou to meet her father, Wen Fusheng, and exposed that he had faked his injuries to draw out hidden enemies. Wen Fusheng revealed that unknown forces might be behind the Heavenly Secrets Token unrest, and Chu Qing suspected the Heavenly Evil Cult before learning the marriage competition was also meant to find a husband for Wen Fusheng’s niece.

• Chu Qing persuaded Si Ye to let him and Wen Rou enter Wen Fusheng’s room, where Wen Rou reunited with her father.
• Chu Qing challenged Wen Fusheng about Si Ye blocking the way and accused him of pretending to be injured; Wen Fusheng sat up, confirming the deception.
• Chu Qing deduced that Wen Fusheng and Wen Kaiyuan had staged a false assassination and injury to lure out troublemakers, and Wen Fusheng confirmed his suspicions about unknown people near Luochen Mountain Manor.
• Wen Fusheng admitted that the Heavenly Secrets Token had stirred up turmoil but said the manor had never found Heavenly Secrets Valley; Chu Qing warned that the hidden group might know its location.
• Chu Qing raised the Heavenly Evil Cult as a possible threat, and Wen Fusheng explained that the Martial Arts Competition for Marriage would help find his niece a husband and demonstrate the manor’s strength.

Chu Qing agreed to oversee Luochen Mountain Manor’s martial contest for marriage and watch for Heavenly Evil Cult agents. As the contest was set for the next day, Wen Fusheng spoke privately with Wen Rou, who told him that Chu Qing had taught her how to smile.

• Wen Fusheng asked Chu Qing to demonstrate his martial arts, but stopped when he realized Chu Qing was the Mad Saber who had badly injured Cheng Tieshan.
• Wen Fusheng appointed Chu Qing to preside over the martial contest for marriage and investigate suspicious participants, with Wen Kaiyuan and Si Ye assisting him.
• Chu Qing agreed, and Wen Fusheng scheduled the contest to begin the following day.
• Wen Kaiyuan welcomed Chu Qing’s appointment, while Si Ye remained wary and Wen Fusheng hinted that he had an opportunity of his own.
• Wen Rou told Wen Fusheng that Chu Qing had taught her how to smile, and her father tearfully asked her to tell him about her years at the Great Easy Sect.

Wen Kaiyuan showed Chu Qing around Luochen Mountain Manor, explained the Wen brothers’ roles, and brought him to meet Hua Jinnian and the others. After assigning Hua Jinnian to protect Xu Mao, Chu Qing investigated a disturbance at the manor and encountered Xia Wanshuang, who suspected his voice resembled the Night Emperor’s.

• Wen Kaiyuan explained the manor’s layout, its patrols, and how he and Wen Fusheng’s third brother served the family, while reassuring Chu Qing that he could trust him.
• Wen Kaiyuan refused to explain why Wen Rou had joined Great Easy Sect, and Chu Qing suspected the Heavenly Secrets Token and Heavenly Secrets Valley interested Wen Fusheng.
• Chu Qing asked Hua Jinnian to protect Xu Mao until he found Ling Beichen and rescued Ling Beichen’s younger sister, then told Bian Cheng he would help oversee Wen Kerén’s Martial Arts Competition for Marriage.
• Chu Qing wandered the manor until disciples summoned him to a fight, where a brocade-clad young woman defeated three men who had harassed another woman.
• The disguised young woman pointed Chu Qing toward Xia Wanshuang, who scrutinized him and wondered whether his voice belonged to the Night Emperor.

Chu Qing pursued a mysterious beggar from Luochen Mountain Manor and lost his trail, then encountered the brocade-clad young lady fighting a deadly assassin. He drove the assassin away, identified the killer as Flower Beauty, and the young lady collapsed unconscious.

• Chu Qing stopped the brocade-clad young lady from fighting inside Luochen Mountain Manor, ordered the troublemakers' arms broken, and had them thrown out.
• Chu Qing recognized a fleeing beggar as possibly Ling Beichen and pursued him, while Xia Wanshuang thanked the young lady, who introduced herself as Iron Ox.
• Chu Qing lost the beggar's trail and searched the forest, where he found a hollow rock wall and heard a fight nearby.
• Chu Qing rushed to find the brocade-clad young lady gravely wounded and caught her after a black-clad attacker flung her toward him.
• The attacker vanished using Plum Blossom Shadow Play, and Chu Qing identified him as Flower Beauty of the Mirror of Sin's Seventy-Two Evil Execution List.
• The young lady said she had stumbled upon the assassin meeting someone in secret, then lost consciousness.

Chu Qing rescued Tie Chuqing after her fight with Flower Beauty and learned that the injured young woman was the Eldest Young Lady of Iron Blood Hall. Tie Chuqing urged him to abandon Luochen Mountain Manor and help her family, but he restrained her and joked about selling her to Tie Lingyun before Wen Rou arrived.

• Chu Qing considered why Flower Beauty had come to Luochen Mountain Manor and suspected someone might have lured the Mirror of Sin there.
• Tie Chuqing awoke, accused Chu Qing of seeing her undressed, and learned that the maidservants had changed and treated her.
• Tie Chuqing revealed that she was Tie Lingyun's daughter and asked Chu Qing to stop helping Luochen Mountain Manor and support Iron Blood Hall instead.
• Chu Qing teased Tie Chuqing about using her as leverage, then subdued her when she tried to attack him and told her to rest.
• Wen Rou arrived, recognized Tie Chuqing as Tie Lingyun's daughter, and gave her an ominous smile after Chu Qing joked about selling her.

Chu Qing and Wen Rou kept Tie Chuqing at Luochen Mountain Manor while preparing for the Martial Arts Competition for Marriage, and Wen Rou identified the scent on a petal as belonging to Ling Fei, the assassin Flower Beauty. Chu Qing hurried to confront a reported intruder and found Old Immortal Jade Dragon fighting Wen Pingce, whose supposed attack made the old man suspect that Wen Fusheng had faked his injuries.

• Tie Chuqing begged not to be taken away by Wen Rou, so Chu Qing and Wen Rou agreed to keep her at the manor for now.
• Wen Rou chose to stay by Chu Qing's side for the competition and told him that the petal bearing Flower Beauty's scent belonged to Ling Fei.
• After learning an intruder had broken into the manor, Chu Qing told Wen Rou to watch Tie Chuqing and ordered a disciple to invite Cao Qiupu to the Star Gazing Platform.
• Chu Qing reached Wen Fusheng's courtyard and saw Old Immortal Jade Dragon fighting Wen Pingce, who used the Nine Heavens Star Finger.
• Old Immortal Jade Dragon narrowly avoided Wen Pingce's strike and attacked him, then abruptly threw him aside and accused Wen Fusheng of faking his injury.
• Chu Qing used the Bright Jade True Scripture to safely dissipate Wen Pingce's fall and told Old Immortal Jade Dragon that Wen Fusheng was still recovering.

Chu Qing fought Old Immortal Jade Dragon at Luochen Mountain Manor, revealing his formidable saber skills and hidden inner force. He killed Old Immortal Jade Dragon, and the commission awarded him a Random Martial Arts Treasure Chest.

• Old Immortal Jade Dragon mistook the situation for a trap set by Wen Fusheng and attacked Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing used his saber technique to counter Old Immortal Jade Dragon’s claws while Wen Pingce recognized the skill of his defense.
• Chu Qing broke Old Immortal Jade Dragon’s attack with a frosty punch, then wounded him with an unpredictable saber strike.
• Old Immortal Jade Dragon unleashed his full strength in a desperate assault, and Chu Qing cut off his head.
• The commission reported Old Immortal Jade Dragon’s successful assassination and awarded Chu Qing a Random Martial Arts Treasure Chest.