Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan refused Ji Yaoyue’s demand and disrupted Ji Wushuang and Liu Ruyan’s demonstration of Dual Swords Combination, humiliating them at the Saintess Celebration. As the ceremony ended, Ji Wushuang called on the Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon to make Chen Xuan suffer.

• Ji Yaoyue demanded that Chen Xuan accept her humiliating terms, but he refused, and Elder Tian Xing stopped her from using force.
• Liu Ruyan became the Vast Sword Sect’s Saintess, and Li Yinglian rewarded her and Ji Wushuang with jade tomes containing Dual Swords Combination.
• Ji Wushuang and Liu Ruyan began demonstrating the divine art, but Chen Xuan used Sword Heart to disrupt their sword auras.
• The failed technique injured Ji Wushuang and Liu Ruyan and made them kneel before Chen Xuan, who mocked them.
• Li Yinglian ended the celebration, and Ji Wushuang silently pleaded with the Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon to punish Chen Xuan.

With three days left before the Apprentice Ceremony and his bond with Ji Yaoyue nearing its end, Chen Xuan discussed his uncertain future with Elder Tian Xing and the others. A sudden demonic attack drew away the sect’s defenders, and a Spirit Transformation expert attacked Xuan Hall, leaving Chen Xuan abandoned as Elder Tian Xing fought to protect him.

• Elder Tian Xing and the others worried about Chen Xuan’s impending separation from Ji Yaoyue, but Chen Xuan refused to reconcile with her.
• Niu Ben suggested that an insider had leaked the Demon Hunting Squad’s secrets, and Elder Tian Xing angrily ordered him not to make such accusations without proof.
• Chen Xuan promised to find Nine Yang Fire Essence to cure Elder Tian Xing’s Dark Mandala Flower poison.
• A poisoned disciple arrived to report that demonic cultivators were attacking the peaks, and Red Beard Elder and more than twenty Nascent Soul elders rushed away to reinforce them.
• A Spirit Transformation expert broke into Xuan Hall, and the gathered disciples and elders abandoned Chen Xuan rather than risk protecting him.
• Elder Tian Xing swallowed a golden pill to regain Spirit Transformation strength and fought the attacker while Du Meng urged Chen Xuan to flee; Chen Xuan stayed, believing Ji Yaoyue would not come.

Vast Sword Sect elders mobilized against hidden devil cultivators while Mu Yun Sanxian detected a possible Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon within the sect. Meanwhile, Ji Wushuang and the women of Jade Maiden Peak discussed Chen Xuan’s expected death, ending with Shen Qingqing wondering who they would insult to please their Little Junior Brother afterward.

• Li Yinglian led the sect elders toward the northern part of the sect to confront devil cultivators spreading poison.
• Liu Ruyan left Azure Wave Cave and joined Azure Glow Elder and the disciples after learning that devil cultivators had infiltrated the sect and killed disciples.
• Mu Yun Sanxian used a bronze mirror to detect five concealed devil cultivators and suspected one carried the aura of an Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon.
• Ji Wushuang told Ji Yaoyue he planned to conquer Liu Ruyan, while Ji Yaoyue reflected that she might regret never having fully conquered Chen Xuan.
• Zhao Caiyue, Shen Qingqing, Bai Ling, and Mu Xueyuan discussed the danger to Chen Xuan and the treasures he was expected to lose.
• Shen Qingqing lamented that after Chen Xuan died, they would have no one left to insult to please Little Junior Brother.

Bai Bingyan rescued Chen Xuan, killed the Flying Demon Sandworm, captured Situ Wuya, and healed Elder Tian Xing. She revealed herself as the Seventh Princess of the Qingqiu lineage and confronted the Vast Sword Sect over its treatment of her husband, leaving the assembled sect members in uproar.

• Elder Tian Xing exposed Situ Wuya, but Situ Wuya grievously wounded him with the Red Dust Sword.
• A Flying Demon Sandworm attacked Chen Xuan, who called for his wife, and Bai Bingyan froze and destroyed it with one finger.
• Bai Bingyan captured Situ Wuya at Chen Xuan's request and gave Elder Tian Xing a pill that pulled him back from the brink of death.
• Bai Bingyan identified herself as the Seventh Princess of the Qingqiu lineage of Ten Thousand Demon Mountain and summoned the Vast Sword Sect to Xuan Hall.
• Li Yinglian led several hundred Vast Sword Sect members to Xuan Hall, where Bai Bingyan accused them of bullying Chen Xuan and publicly confirmed he was her husband.

Bai Bingyan defended Chen Xuan at the Vast Sword Sect, punished those who insulted or framed him, and clashed with Sect Master Li Yinglian over her attempt to uncover the culprit. She announced she would leave before sunset, but privately promised Chen Xuan she would return to visit him regularly after stabilizing an ancient formation.

• Bai Bingyan slapped Ji Wushuang for posturing before her and knocked Liu Ruyan away after calling her a shameless framer of Chen Xuan.
• Bai Bingyan rejected Li Yinglian’s claim that Chen Xuan had deceived her and said she and her husband were devoted to each other.
• Bai Bingyan tried to use the Great Soul-Seizing Art on Peach Blossom Sword Maniac, but Li Yinglian intervened and the man’s soul collapsed, killing him before he could reveal who was behind the plot.
• Bai Bingyan told Li Yinglian she would leave before sunset, while Chen Xuan asked her to drop the matter to avoid worsening tensions between the regions.
• Bai Bingyan secretly told Chen Xuan she would stabilize an ancient formation and then visit him every ten days or half a month, cheering him up.

Li Yinglian and Ji Yaoyue plotted around the failed scheme against Chen Xuan, while Liu Ruyan reconsidered her view of him and Elder Tian Xing proposed a way for him to escape the wager. Chen Xuan and Bai Bingyan parted temporarily, with Bai promising to visit him regularly.

• Li Yinglian told Pink Madam that Bai Bingyan had caused their plan to fail, and Pink Madam urged him to eliminate Chen Xuan before emerging from the mirror to help heal him.
• Ji Wushuang confronted Ji Yaoyue over her silence during Bai Bingyan's defense of Chen Xuan, but she said Bai Bingyan's identity would doom Chen Xuan and gave him a Life Spirit Pill to heal his teeth.
• Liu Ruyan wondered why Bai Bingyan had chosen Chen Xuan and decided to change her attitude toward him so she could uncover his secret.
• Elder Tian Xing advised Chen Xuan to surrender the Panlong Treasure Ring and Haotian Sword, end his wager with Ji Yaoyue, and leave with Bai Bingyan; Du Meng, Niu Ben, and Shi Lei agreed.
• Chen Xuan and Bai Bingyan embraced before her temporary departure, and she promised to visit him two or three times each month.

Chen Xuan and Bai Bingyan discovered she was pregnant, and she urged him to become Mu Yun Sanxian’s True Disciple so he could propose marriage with a powerful backer. After Bai Bingyan left, Chen Xuan remained at the Vast Sword Sect, bound to the Great Dao Bet and set to compete in the Apprentice Ceremony.

• Bai Bingyan told Chen Xuan that she was carrying his child, and he sensed the baby’s pulse and vowed to protect his family.
• Bai Bingyan urged Chen Xuan to find women with Pure Yin Bodies or Mystic Ice Physiques to balance his True Dragon Bloodline and gave him a Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul Pearl.
• Elder Tian Xing offered Ji Yaoyue the Panlong Treasure Ring, Haotian Sword, and its Spirit Stones to end the Great Dao Bet early, but Ji Yaoyue refused.
• Li Yinglian said Chen Xuan had to enter the Apprentice Ceremony, and Chen Xuan reassured Elder Tian Xing that the bet was not yet decided.
• Bai Bingyan warned everyone not to harm Chen Xuan, then left for Ten Thousand Demon Mountain after promising to come find him within ten days if he did not come to Qingqiu to propose marriage.

After Bai Bingyan left, Chen Xuan drank with his loyal friends, resolved to grow stronger, and wondered what memory had been erased from him. He rejected Liu Ruyan’s attempt to win him over, then arrived at Vast Hall as the sect prepared to depart for Mu Yun Mountain Range and the Apprentice Ceremony.

• Chen Xuan drank with Du Meng, Shi Lei, and Niu Ben, worrying about Bai Bingyan and vowing to become Mu Yun Sanxian’s inheritor.
• A bout of head pain renewed Chen Xuan’s suspicions about his missing memories and their possible connection to Ji Yaoyue.
• Dugu Xie told Chen Xuan that Liu Ruyan was waiting outside Xuan Hall, and Chen Xuan went to confront her.
• Liu Ruyan claimed her Virginity Mark had been taken by force, but Chen Xuan rejected her and she flew away in tears.
• Chen Xuan’s friends praised his refusal, while Ji Wushuang grew furious and Zhao Caiyue and the other women spread rumors.
• Two days later, Chen Xuan arrived at Vast Hall for the departure to Mu Yun Mountain Range, and Sect Master Li Yinglian announced one major matter before they left.

Li Yinglian divined that the Vast Sword Sect would produce a True Dragon Son, and the sect set out for the Apprentice Ceremony at Mu Yun Mountain Range with Ji Wushuang presumed to be the one. Meanwhile, Bai Bingyan returned to Qingqiu and Diao Zhenxiao headed for the ceremony to kill Chen Xuan.

• Li Yinglian used a divination tortoiseshell, and Elder Qingxu identified its omen as the True Dragon Ascending Heaven Hexagram, which the sect took as a sign that Ji Wushuang would become a True Dragon Son.
• Ji Yaoyue rebuked Bai Ling for insulting Bai Bingyan, while Chen Xuan calmly remarked that the divination hexagram seemed accurate.
• Li Yinglian led the Vast Sword Sect disciples toward Mu Yun Mountain Range aboard a Sword Dragon, and Du Meng worried that Chen Xuan faced danger.
• Elder Tian Xing watched the sect depart and worried that Chen Xuan would not be safe at the Apprentice Ceremony.
• Bai Bingyan returned to Qingqiu, where Bai Yaowu confirmed that she was involved with Chen Xuan to visiting Demon Race prodigies.
• Diao Zhenxiao learned of Bai Bingyan and Chen Xuan's relationship, then flew toward Mu Yun Mountain Range to kill Chen Xuan.

Bai Bingyan returned to Ten Thousand Demon Mountain and asked her father to protect Chen Xuan, while Bai Yaowu sent Bai Qian to Central Province to assess him. Bai Qian discovered Chen Xuan was her Love Tribulation, and Chen Xuan arrived at Mu Yun Immortal Palace for the Apprentice Ceremony.

• Bai Bingyan helped the seven great demons reinforce the formation suppressing the fiend beneath Ten Thousand Demon Mountain, then told Hua Lingtian she feared Shi Batian would harm Chen Xuan.
• Bai Bingyan asked Hua Lingtian to help Chen Xuan and insisted he would prove himself after Mu Yun Sanxian's Apprentice Ceremony.
• Bai Yaowu told Bai Qian to go to Central Province and judge whether Chen Xuan was worthy of Bai Bingyan, then revealed that Bai Bingyan was pregnant and Chen Xuan possessed Five-Clawed Golden Dragon True Dragon Bloodline.
• Bai Qian divined that Chen Xuan was her Love Tribulation and wondered whether to kill him or embrace her feelings.
• Ji Wushuang and the Vast Sword Sect arrived near Mu Yun Mountain Range, where Chen Xuan prepared to take part in the Apprentice Ceremony.

As the Apprentice Ceremony approached, Chen Xuan was dismissed as a fallen prodigy while Mu Yun Sanxian secretly prepared to meet him. Chen Xuan received an immortal poem from Mu Yun Sanxian, hinting that his fortunes would soon change.

• A loose cultivator told Hu Zi about the Nine Sects and Thirteen Schools and said Ji Wushuang was the leading candidate to inherit Mu Yun Sanxian's legacy, while Chen Xuan had fallen after detonating his Golden Core.
• Shadow reported Chen Xuan's actions to Mu Yun Sanxian, who praised him, while Yu Meiren objected to her engagement to Chen Xuan.
• Mu Yun Sanxian sent Chen Xuan an immortal poem as a gift before their meeting at the Apprentice Ceremony.
• Zhao Caiyue tried to persuade Chen Xuan to give the Azure Blood Loyal Heart Token to Eldest Senior Sister, but Chen Xuan rejected her and mocked her.
• Immortal-light characters entered Chen Xuan's Purple Mansion and formed a poem signed by Mu Yun Sanxian, leaving Chen Xuan astonished and overjoyed.

Chen Xuan arrived at the Seven Towers Plain for the Apprentice Ceremony and was publicly praised by five Tower Masters. As the other sects moved to strip Ji Wushuang of his audience quota, Ji Yaoyue announced that she was severing her master-disciple ties with Chen Xuan and demanded his expulsion from the Vast Sword Sect.

• Chen Xuan reached the Seven Towers Plain with the Vast Sword Sect and heard that qualified cultivators could compete for nominal disciple positions while sect Saint Sons and Saintesses could seek an audience with Mu Yun Sanxian.
• Dragon Cry Superior and four other Tower Masters praised Chen Xuan for his deeds against the Demonic Path, leaving the gathered factions surprised.
• Bai Chuan Daoren demanded that Ji Wushuang lose his audience quota because the Vast Sword Sect had two Saint Sons, and the Seven Tower Masters agreed.
• Ji Yaoyue accused the other sects of conspiring to block Ji Wushuang and watched him lose his audience opportunity.
• Ji Yaoyue announced that she was severing her master-disciple relationship with Chen Xuan and asked the Vast Sword Sect to expel him and remove his Saint Son status.

Ji Yaoyue publicly severed her master-disciple ties with Chen Xuan and expelled him from the Vast Sword Sect, while Ji Wushuang and others accused him of numerous crimes. Chen Xuan and several loyal disciples left the sect, and he ended the confrontation by defiantly calling himself a True Dragon and Ji Wushuang a cowardly dog.

• Ji Yaoyue called for Chen Xuan's expulsion, while Ji Wushuang and several disciples accused him of colluding with demonic forces and abusing Liu Ruyan.
• Chen Xuan challenged his accusers to swear Great Dao Oaths, but they stayed silent; Ji Yaoyue then formed a contract to sever their ties and expel him.
• Chen Xuan asked Li Yinglian to let him take the Great Evolution Sword Palace when he left, and Li Yinglian agreed to form a departure contract.
• Du Meng, Niu Ben, Shi Lei, Dong Yufei, and other disciples chose to leave the Vast Sword Sect with Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan and the others signed the contracts and left the sect; Ji Yaoyue mocked Chen Xuan, and he cursed her and called himself a True Dragon while insulting Ji Wushuang.

Chen Xuan publicly accused Ji Wushuang and Liu Ruyan of secretly being together, then waited as other sects offered him protection and discipleship. When Diao Zhenxiao arrived to kill him, Ji Yaoyue stopped the eagle, claiming Chen Xuan’s treasure had to be settled under their Great Dao Bet, leaving Ji Wushuang furious and suspicious of her lingering attachment.

• Chen Xuan insulted Ji Wushuang and challenged him to swear a Great Dao Oath to prove he had not erased Liu Ruyan’s Virginity Mark.
• Ji Wushuang raged but could not swear the oath, while Li Yinglian dismissed Chen Xuan and Wei Wuyan and other sect leaders offered him and his companions places in their sects.
• Chen Xuan waited for Mu Yun Sanxian’s arrangements instead of accepting an offer.
• Diao Zhenxiao arrived on a lightning-wreathed eagle and threatened to kill Chen Xuan over his connection to Bai Bingyan.
• Ji Yaoyue knocked Diao Zhenxiao away and invoked her Great Dao Bet with Chen Xuan to prevent him from killing Chen Xuan and taking his treasure.
• Diao Zhenxiao flew back and denied that he intended to steal the treasure, while Ji Wushuang seethed at Ji Yaoyue’s apparent reluctance to let Chen Xuan go.

Shadow stopped Diao Zhenxiao from attacking Chen Xuan and announced that qualified people could enter Mu Yun Immortal Palace the next day. Chen Xuan rejected Ji Yaoyue’s offer with a fart, while Shi Batian ordered his hidden agents to target him.

• Diao Zhenxiao threatened Chen Xuan, but Shadow appeared, crushed him underfoot, and kicked him away after announcing Mu Yun Sanxian’s decree for the three trials.
• The leaders of the Nine Sects and Thirteen Schools withdrew their offers of support to Chen Xuan, who left with his companions.
• Ji Yaoyue secretly offered Chen Xuan a place as a Servant Disciple in exchange for the Azure Blood Loyal Heart Token, but Chen Xuan answered with a fart and walked away.
• Bai Qian watched Chen Xuan through a Water Mirror and wondered whether he had Mu Yun Sanxian’s approval, while worrying about her Love Tribulation.
• Shi Batian learned that Diao Zhenxiao had failed to kill Chen Xuan and ordered his clan’s agents to cripple Chen Xuan and undermine Bai Bingyan’s choice of him.

Chen Xuan reassured his companions that his dantian had recovered and declared himself a stronger fit for the True Dragon Ascending Heaven hexagram than Ji Wushuang. As the group became sworn siblings and prepared for the Apprentice Ceremony, the Vast Sword Sect placed its hopes on Ji Wushuang becoming Mu Yun Sanxian’s inheritor.

• Chen Xuan hinted that the True Dragon in the hexagram might be him, then confirmed his dantian injury had recovered and said he fit the hexagram better than Ji Wushuang.
• Chen Xuan vowed to give his companions strength and glory after they left the Vast Sword Sect, then organized the seven of them into sworn siblings with himself as eldest.
• The seven swore a blood oath and shared blood wine, renewing their hope for the future and their anticipation of the Apprentice Ceremony.
• At a core meeting, Li Yinglian reassured the Vast Sword Sect that Ji Wushuang’s victory at the Apprentice Ceremony would restore the sect’s standing.
• Ji Yaoyue predicted that Ji Wushuang would lead the Seven Towers after becoming Mu Yun Sanxian’s inheritor, and Ji Wushuang vowed not to disappoint them.

A black-robed National Teacher sent Liu Mu to stir up trouble in Southern Border, while Bai Bingyan worried that the awakening Demon Ancestor might discover Chen Xuan’s identity. Chen Xuan arrived at the Apprentice Ceremony, where Mu Yin Xue offered him protection and the position of her Imperial Son-in-Law in exchange for his token.

• The National Teacher gave Liu Mu a blood-red pill and ordered him to use Six Eyes Imprisoning the Heavens to disrupt Southern Border.
• Bai Yaowu told Bai Bingyan that she would approve her marriage to Chen Xuan if he became Mu Yun Sanxian’s inheritor, then warned that the Demon Ancestor was about to awaken.
• Bai Bingyan feared the Demon Ancestor would recognize Chen Xuan’s identity through the black iron plaque around his neck and urged her unborn child to bless him.
• Chen Xuan and his six companions traveled to Seven Towers Plain for the Apprentice Ceremony, where cultivators discussed the leading candidates.
• Mu Yin Xue approached Chen Xuan and offered his Azure Blood Loyal Heart Token in exchange for her First Tribulation Loose Immortal ancestor’s protection and the position of Imperial Son-in-Law.
• Chen Xuan said they could discuss the offer privately after the ceremony, and Mu Yin Xue mistakenly believed he intended to marry into her family.

At Mu Yun Immortal Palace, Chen Xuan joined the first of the Three Trials and used his insight into the Soaring Cloud Golden Steps to climb with ease. He left the crowd stunned by claiming the summit and the seven Marrow Cleansing Pills.

• Bai Chuan Daoren showed the crowd scenes from Seven Towers Plain, including Mu Yin Xue praising Chen Xuan and insulting Ji Wushuang, before cutting off the sound.
• Dragon Cry Superior opened the first trial and announced that the first climber to reach the top of the Soaring Cloud Golden Steps would win seven Marrow Cleansing Pills.
• Chen Xuan began climbing while Bai Ling and Ji Yaoyue mocked him, but Dragon Cry Superior praised his ability to step on the Dao-rhyme acupoints and avoid the stairs’ pressure.
• Chen Xuan reached the fifty-fifth step alongside Mu Yin Xue and teased her as Bu Chaoneng claimed he would reach the summit first.
• After noticing the prize, Chen Xuan activated the Nine Yang True Dragon Art, overtook the other challengers, and reached the hundredth step first.

Chen Xuan reached the summit of the Soaring Cloud Golden Steps, where his dragon roar attracted the interest of the Mystic Sound Sect’s Shangguan Yayin. He carried his sworn brothers and sisters to the top, declared that he would protect them, and challenged Ji Yaoyue over their Great Dao bet.

• Chen Xuan sprinted from the fifty-fifth step to the summit, stunning the onlookers, while Ji Yaoyue and Ji Wushuang reacted with fury and jealousy.
• Liu Ruyan claimed Chen Xuan had used a Forbidden Technique despite his ruined cultivation, but Chen Xuan’s powerful dragon roar impressed Shangguan Yayin, who wanted him as a disciple.
• Chen Xuan carried Du Meng, Niu Ben, Lan Lingfeng, Nangong Ling, Zhao Jianming, and Dong Yufei to the summit, kicked Dai Tao off a step, and ignored Mu Yin Xue’s request for help.
• Dragon Cry Superior declared Chen Xuan’s actions permissible after others protested, and Chen Xuan announced that he would kill anyone who harmed his sworn siblings.
• Ji Yaoyue mocked Chen Xuan’s chances in the next trial, and Chen Xuan challenged her to prepare to lose their Great Dao Contract and bet before she flew above the summit and demanded he kneel.

After passing the first trial, Chen Xuan shared the prize pills with his companions and prepared for a second trial involving cauldrons formed from Serpent Dragon Pill Qi. He suspected the challenge was arranged to help him advance, while Ji Wushuang taunted him to withdraw.

• Chen Xuan distributed the seven Marrow Cleansing Pills among his group and swallowed his own as Ji Yaoyue regretted not receiving them.
• Bai Qian realized her appreciation for Chen Xuan had formed a Love Thread in her Soul Source and worried over her Love Tribulation.
• Mu Yin Xue passed the first trial and glared at Chen Xuan while thinking about their promised private conversation.
• Azure Wood Pill King announced that challengers would bear Ten-Thousand Catty Pill Cauldrons infused with Serpent Dragon Pill Qi, and that enduring three would earn a reward.
• Chen Xuan guessed Mu Yun Sanxian had designed the second trial to help him advance, while Ji Wushuang mocked him and urged him to withdraw.