Chapter Summaries

Yi Xiaofeng rescued Yang Yu from the Patrol Team and learned that the Seven-Colored Glass Tree consumed human lives to sustain an old demon in the Black Hole. While searching Zhuo Ye Fortress, he encountered Xu Qiye, the Blood Palm Sect’s Seventh Elder, and began fighting him.

• Yi Xiaofeng followed the Patrol Team, slipped and revealed his presence, then defeated its members and freed Yang Yu.
• Yang Yu told Yi Xiaofeng that an old demon in the Black Hole was absorbing the Seven-Colored Glass Tree’s spiritual power, and that the tree needed human lives to survive.
• Yi Xiaofeng left Yang Yu behind and went searching for Qiao Tiequan across the rooftops.
• Yi Xiaofeng discovered Xu Qiye draining a young woman’s vitality and challenged him after Xu Qiye introduced himself as the Blood-Greedy Fox.
• Yi Xiaofeng’s swordsmanship drove Xu Qiye onto the defensive, though Xu Qiye remained puzzled by Yi Xiaofeng’s skill despite his weak spiritual power.

Yi Xiaofeng killed Xu Qiye with the Golden Cricket after bluffing that Bai Hongxiao was nearby, then learned a Heaven Sword Saint Sect elder was imprisoned in Zhuo Ye Fortress. That night, he reached the Shan Residence, where Shan Tiange confronted a crowd demanding answers.

• Xu Qiye overwhelmed Yi Xiaofeng, but hesitated when Yi claimed to belong to the Heaven Sword Saint Sect and invoked Bai Hongxiao.
• Yi Xiaofeng shot Xu Qiye with a poisoned needle from the Golden Cricket, confirmed his death, and took his Storage Ring.
• A young woman told Yi Xiaofeng that a Heaven Sword Saint Sect elder had been imprisoned at the Young Fortress Master's residence after trying to save her; Yi decided to investigate Shan Tiange's residence.
• Yi Xiaofeng rested, then headed through Zhuo Ye Fortress at night as screams echoed through the streets.
• Yi Xiaofeng found a crowd gathered outside the Shan Residence demanding an explanation, and Shan Tiange came out angrily to challenge them.

Yi Xiaofeng infiltrated the Shan Residence to investigate its secrets and freed dozens of imprisoned cultivators. He finally found a chained man who might be the Heaven Sword Saint Sect senior, but the man doubted Yi Xiaofeng’s claim of being close to Bai Hongxiao.

• Shan Tiange defended the Patrol Team’s arrests to the angry cultivators outside his residence.
• Yi Xiaofeng overheard Shan Tiange’s younger brothers say that Shan Tiange had changed and had no apparent reason to kill their father.
• Yi Xiaofeng rescued Qin Qinxue, Xu Lang, and an unknown young man, then freed dozens more prisoners throughout the residence.
• The escaped cultivators threw the Shan Residence into chaos, while Yi Xiaofeng continued searching for the Heaven Sword Saint Sect senior.
• Yi Xiaofeng found a chained man meditating in a woodshed and claimed he had come to rescue him because he was close to Bai Hongxiao.
• The man questioned Yi Xiaofeng’s claim and said he was far too weak to be close to Bai Hongxiao.

Yi Xiaofeng obtained Qiu Rangong’s Red Cloud Sword and strengthened his spiritual power while preparing to act against Zhuo Ye Fortress. After hearing an explosion, he headed toward it and found Patrol Disciples confronting a woman from Su Xin Palace.

• Yi Xiaofeng persuaded Qiu Rangong to give him the Red Cloud Sword in exchange for finding the key to his chains.
• Yi Xiaofeng escaped the Shan Residence, hid in an abandoned house, and spent three hours making the Red Cloud Sword acknowledge him as its owner.
• Yi Xiaofeng practiced with the sword, refined his remaining Pure Yang Pill, and planned to use his remaining days to complete Side Quests or weaken Zhuo Ye Fortress.
• Yi Xiaofeng heard an explosion and headed toward its source.
• Qiao Tiequan and more than a hundred Patrol Disciples surrounded a woman in green, and Qiao Tiequan demanded to know whether Su Xin Palace had harmed the old Fortress Lord.

Chen Lan, a powerful Su Xin Palace disciple, fought Qiao Tiequan before a mysterious curse forced her to flee from Shan Tiange. Yi Xiaofeng followed the wounded Qiao Tiequan and confronted him over Zhuo Ye Fortress’s treatment of its civilians.

• Chen Lan identified herself as a Dual Spiritual Roots prodigy and defeated Qiao Tiequan with her lightning techniques.
• A cold snort cursed Chen Lan, and she fled as Shan Tiange pursued her.
• Xu Lang and Qin Qinxue decided not to attack Qiao Tiequan, but Yi Xiaofeng secretly followed him.
• Qiao Tiequan stopped to treat his wounds, and Yi Xiaofeng confronted him about the civilians used to cultivate the Seven-Colored Glass Tree.
• Qiao Tiequan denied that Zhuo Ye Fortress was harming civilians and became enraged at Yi Xiaofeng’s accusations.

Yi Xiaofeng killed Patrol Leader Qiao Tiequan, who appeared to accept his death after warning him not to slaughter Zhuo Ye Fortress’s uninformed disciples. As the fortress’s allies worried about becoming sacrificial pawns, Sword Saint Bai Hongxiao arrived and revealed he had protected Yi Xiaofeng from a curse.

• Qiao Tiequan ordered his patrol disciples to attack Yi Xiaofeng, who killed four and wounded the rest before fatally stabbing Qiao Tiequan.
• Qiao Tiequan warned Yi Xiaofeng that many Zhuo Ye Fortress disciples were unaware of the truth, then died as hurried footsteps approached and Yi Xiaofeng fled.
• Yi Xiaofeng received 500 points for completing Side Quest Thirteen and wondered whether the game world and its people were real.
• Shan Tiange dismissed Qiao Tiequan as useless, while Li She warned that Zhuo Ye Fortress risked becoming a sacrifice for the mysterious old demon.
• Bai Hongxiao arrived at the pavilion and blackened Yi Xiaofeng’s longsword, explaining that he had placed a restriction on it to protect Yi Xiaofeng from its curse.
• Yi Xiaofeng thanked Bai Hongxiao and jokingly offered to become his disciple.

Yi Xiaofeng learned that the Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor was behind the danger in Zhuo Ye Fortress and agreed to work with Su Xin Palace while Bai Hongxiao prepared to face him. That night, Yi Xiaofeng overheard Xu Lang reveal that the Old Ancestor would emerge from seclusion at noon the next day.

• Bai Hongxiao identified the demon as the Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor and explained that his curse kept him from leaving Zhuo Ye Fortress.
• Bai Hongxiao warned Yi Xiaofeng that Qiu Rangong was bait carrying a wisp of the Old Ancestor’s soul and that some guests were the Old Ancestor’s lackeys.
• Bai Hongxiao took Yi Xiaofeng’s Red Cloud Sword for modifications and told him to join forces with Su Xin Palace and deal with Shan Residence.
• Yi Xiaofeng found a poisoned wooden box containing a spell manual hidden in a tree.
• Xu Lang told an accomplice that he had recruited twenty-seven cultivators for the Old Ancestor, killed the Third Prince of Bei Wei, and framed Shan Tiange.
• Xu Lang revealed that the Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor would emerge from seclusion at noon tomorrow and had ordered Shan Tiange eliminated.

Yi Xiaofeng learned that Xu Lang was plotting to kill Shan Tiange and learned Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor would emerge at noon, so he warned the Bei Wei Royal Family and prepared to face the threat. After mastering the Wind Riding Technique, he stayed in Zhuo Ye Fortress and joined Bai Hongxiao as the royal cultivators advanced toward the Shan Residence.

• Yi Xiaofeng overheard Xu Lang plan to kill Shan Tiange and prevent the righteous and evil camps from turning against each other.
• Yi Xiaofeng found a Wind Riding Technique manual in a wooden box, then warned the guards that the Third Prince had been killed and Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor would emerge at noon.
• Yi Xiaofeng told Bai Hongxiao what he had heard, and Bai Hongxiao said he would fight Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor despite his curse and gave Yi Xiaofeng the Red Cloud Sword.
• Yi Xiaofeng stayed behind to cultivate the Wind Riding Technique and mastered it by morning.
• Yi Xiaofeng saw the Bei Wei Royal Family's cultivators fly toward the Shan Residence, and Bai Hongxiao enchanted the Red Cloud Sword and invited him to join the demon-slaying fight.

Yi Xiaofeng waited with Bai Hongxiao as the Bei Wei Royal Family attacked Zhuo Ye Fortress, then fought Blood Palm Sect cultivators and searched for allies. He found Chen Lan and four Su Xin Palace disciples cornered by a threatening man, and the chapter ended with their danger unresolved.

• Bai Hongxiao gave Yi Xiaofeng the Red Cloud Sword and explained that he helped him because he believed Yi Xiaofeng possessed a Chivalrous Heart.
• As the Bei Wei Royal Family's forces stormed Zhuo Ye Fortress, Bai Hongxiao said Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor had reached the Nascent Soul realm and could not be stopped.
• Bai Hongxiao revealed himself to give others confidence, then flew away, while Yi Xiaofeng went looking for Su Xin Palace or Blood Palm Sect disciples.
• Yi Xiaofeng killed a Blood Palm Sect cultivator who was fighting Yang Yu, then warned Yang Yu not to follow him; Yang Yu admired him.
• Yi Xiaofeng found Chen Lan and four Su Xin Palace women cornered by a fat man who threatened them, while Chen Lan was wounded.

Yi Xiaofeng intervened when a Blood Palm Sect cultivator threatened Chen Lan and four other Su Xin Palace disciples, and the Sword Saint’s arrival drove the man away. The group watched Bai Hongxiao overpower Slaughter Heart Old Demon, leaving Yi Xiaofeng awed by the Sword Saint’s strength as Zhuo Ye Fortress was devastated.

• Yi Xiaofeng challenged the fat man by claiming to belong to the Heaven Sword Saint Sect, then fought him and learned his blood-red spiritual attack could pursue him and drain his blood.
• Chen Lan warned Yi Xiaofeng not to touch the fat man’s spiritual power, while Yi Xiaofeng called for the Sword Saint to save him.
• A pillar of sword energy appeared in the north, and the fat man fled when he realized Bai Hongxiao had arrived; the system rewarded Yi Xiaofeng with 500 points for saving five Su Xin Palace disciples.
• Yi Xiaofeng led Chen Lan and the other women away as Zhuo Ye Fortress shook, and they saw Bai Hongxiao split apart a giant demon formed from demonic mist.
• Bai Hongxiao appeared before Slaughter Heart Old Demon and destroyed the black shadow with a sword strike, while the resulting sword qi ravaged Zhuo Ye Fortress.

Yi Xiaofeng took shelter with Chen Lan and four other Su Xin Palace disciples while Bai Hongxiao fought the Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor above Zhuo Ye Fortress. After the Old Ancestor overwhelmed Bai Hongxiao and summoned the Seven-Colored Glass Tree, blood bats transformed into human forms and surrounded the fortress, trapping Yi Xiaofeng and the others.

• Yi Xiaofeng told Chen Lan and the other women about his connection to Su Xin Palace through Wang Yanran and Wei Qixin, and learned that his marriage to Wang Yanran had been announced to protect her from suitors.
• Bai Hongxiao and the Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor fought above Zhuo Ye Fortress, and their battle damaged the city and endangered its cultivators.
• The Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor poisoned Bai Hongxiao's hands with demonic qi and sent him crashing into the ruins.
• The Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor summoned the Seven-Colored Glass Tree, whose fruit opened to reveal countless dried corpses hanging from vines.
• Demonic Cultivators and players knelt to the Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor as he demanded worship, while Chen Lan urged the group to flee.
• Blood bats poured from the Seven-Colored Glass Tree, transformed into human forms, and surrounded Zhuo Ye Fortress, blocking the group's escape.

Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor tightened his control over Zhuo Ye Fortress while Bai Hongxiao rose to challenge him again. Yi Xiaofeng chose to approach the Seven-Colored Glass Tree and help the Sword Saint, with Chen Lan agreeing to take him there.

• Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor threatened anyone who tried to flee Zhuo Ye Fortress, while bat demons hovered over the trapped cultivators.
• Bai Hongxiao stood up and faced Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor, but demonic qi restrained him as bat demons killed contestant Ding Yi.
• Bai Hongxiao broke free and attacked Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor atop the Seven-Colored Glass Tree.
• Chen Lan used a bracelet to make Yi Xiaofeng and the others invisible so they could move past the bat demons.
• Yi Xiaofeng decided to go beneath the Seven-Colored Glass Tree to help Bai Hongxiao, and Chen Lan agreed to take him there.

With Chen Lan escorting him toward the Seven-Colored Glass Tree, Yi Xiaofeng questioned Xu Lang about Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor and learned the demonic contestants might have come to help the enemy. After killing Xu Lang and reaching the tree’s base, Yi Xiaofeng parted from Chen Lan and the other women, with Bai Hongxiao’s fate still unknown.

• Chen Lan used her artifact bracelet to guide Yi Xiaofeng and four women past the bat ghosts as they traveled through the ruined Zhuo Ye Fortress.
• Yi Xiaofeng ambushed Xu Lang and demanded information about Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor, while Xu Lang claimed the Seven-Colored Glass Tree and the Old Ancestor had become inseparable.
• Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor’s laughter rang out and the pressure over the area vanished, suggesting Bai Hongxiao had lost their battle.
• Xu Lang claimed the contestants had come to help Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor, so Yi Xiaofeng beheaded him and learned from the notification that Xu Lang was an Evil Path contestant.
• Yi Xiaofeng’s group reached the street near the Seven-Colored Glass Tree, where Chen Lan and the other women prepared to leave him.

Yi Xiaofeng confronted Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor after the curse failed to affect him, pretending to be the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal. He survived the demon’s powerful strike with the Red Cloud Sword’s hidden power and prepared to attack, though he privately doubted he could control it.

• Chen Lan and the four women stopped when the bracelet fell, and Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor appeared beside Yi Xiaofeng.
• Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor questioned why his curse did not affect Yi Xiaofeng, who spotted a red glow within the demonic qi.
• Yi Xiaofeng drew the Red Cloud Sword and claimed to be the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal, declaring that he would stop Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor from massacring Zhuo Ye Fortress.
• Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor struck Yi Xiaofeng and sent him into the ruins, but Yi Xiaofeng emerged uninjured because the Red Cloud Sword supplied him with powerful spiritual energy.
• Yi Xiaofeng challenged Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor and raised the Red Cloud Sword, claiming it held three thousand years of cultivation while privately worrying that he could not control its power.

Yi Xiaofeng bluffed Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor until Bai Hongxiao returned and struck him with sword qi, but the Sword Saint collapsed and Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor severely injured Yi Xiaofeng. With both defenders incapacitated, Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor summoned the cultivators of Zhuo Ye Fortress to kneel before him.

• Yi Xiaofeng approached Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor while bluffing about his strength, until Bai Hongxiao rushed in and blasted the enemy with sword qi.
• Bai Hongxiao unleashed hundreds of sword shadows that pierced Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor's demonic body, then collapsed before he could finish him.
• Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor saw Yi Xiaofeng's panic, struck him with a vine, and demanded that everyone kneel.
• Yi Xiaofeng lay severely injured as Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor gathered cultivators from Zhuo Ye Fortress, and Qin Qinxue arrived and knelt with the others.

Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor began turning the kneeling cultivators into Demonic Soldiers while Bai Hongxiao revealed himself as a Nascent Soul inside Yi Xiaofeng and prepared a final strike. Bai Hongxiao took control of Yi Xiaofeng to unleash the World Under Heaven Sword, which struck Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor and left his fate unclear.

• Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor kicked Bai Hongxiao aside, then used vines to capture the kneeling cultivators, including Qin Qinxue and Chen Lan.
• Bai Hongxiao told Yi Xiaofeng that Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor intended to create a Demonic Army to escape Northern Wei and would be vulnerable while forging the soldiers.
• Bai Hongxiao revealed that he had left power in the Red Cloud Sword and said one sword could kill Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor, but Yi Xiaofeng would have to wield it.
• Bai Hongxiao took control of Yi Xiaofeng as Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor began transforming a young man into a Demonic Soldier.
• Yi Xiaofeng used the World Under Heaven Sword—Hearing the Dao, and the Red Cloud Sword struck Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor with a burst of sword qi, making him vanish.

Yi Xiaofeng used Bai Hongxiao’s World Under Heaven Sword to kill Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor, earning 8,000 points and obtaining the Nine Revolutions Soul-Seizing Lamp. As greedy cultivators moved to take the treasure while Yi Xiaofeng was exhausted, Bai Hongxiao appeared to protect him.

• Bai Hongxiao’s World Under Heaven Sword destroyed Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor, ended the vengeful ghosts, and caused the Seven-Colored Glass Tree to wither.
• Yi Xiaofeng received 8,000 points for killing Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor, then found and stored the top-grade Nine Revolutions Soul-Seizing Lamp.
• A man in yellow approached the weakened Yi Xiaofeng, claiming the lamp might let Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor possess him and drawing other cultivators toward the treasure.
• Chen Lan and four women rushed to defend Yi Xiaofeng as the gathering cultivators eyed his lamp and questioned how he had defeated Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor.
• Bai Hongxiao appeared above the crowd, and Yi Xiaofeng asked him to protect him in return for helping avenge him.

After the Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor died, Bai Hongxiao restrained the survivors until Northern Wei arrived, while Yi Xiaofeng recovered and worried about his quest and the royal family’s response. Qin Qinxue warned him that the Third Prince’s death was likely part of a Bei Wei Royal Family power struggle and that the Second Prince might kill everyone to silence them.

• Bai Hongxiao forbade the cultivators from leaving or approaching the Seven-Colored Glass Tree until Northern Wei took control.
• Northern Wei forces arrived, and Bai Hongxiao left the aftermath to Great Commander Wu Chen before flying away.
• The Second Prince ordered every cultivator in Zhuo Ye Fortress detained, and soldiers gathered them in a guarded clearing.
• Qin Qinxue told Yi Xiaofeng that Imperial City cultivators had planted Golden Crickets in Zhuo Ye Fortress and that the Third Prince’s death was likely part of a royal family struggle.
• Qin Qinxue warned Yi Xiaofeng that the Second Prince intended to kill the gathered cultivators to silence them.

Yi Xiaofeng waited for Bai Hongxiao to help him escape the Second Prince’s deadly investigation into his brother’s murder. Bai Hongxiao summoned Yi Xiaofeng and ordered him to spar with a Northern Wei prodigy, whose cultivation far exceeded Yi Xiaofeng’s.

• Qin Qinxue warned Yi Xiaofeng that the Second Prince might eliminate them, while Chen Lan cautioned him against pledging loyalty to the prince.
• The Second Prince arrived and ordered the cultivators to choose ten suspects for torture over his third brother’s murder.
• Bai Hongxiao summoned Yi Xiaofeng, who left the clearing with Chen Lan and the other women.
• Bai Hongxiao told Yi Xiaofeng to spar with a Northern Wei Royal Family prodigy and make him give up on becoming Bai Hongxiao’s disciple.
• Yi Xiaofeng learned that the prodigy had reached Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer.

Yi Xiaofeng accompanied Bai Hongxiao to meet Han Yuan, a young prince seeking to become the Sword Saint’s disciple. Bai Hongxiao set a sword-aptitude test between them, and Yi Xiaofeng immediately declared his manual invincible after one glance.

• Yi Xiaofeng recognized Yang Yu disguised as a Northern Wei soldier but chose not to expose him.
• Chen Lan asked Bai Hongxiao about the Nine Revolutions Soul-Seizing Lamp and his past fight with the Slaughter Heart Old Ancestor, and he hinted that a person born into the demonic path did not have to become a demon.
• Bai Hongxiao introduced Yi Xiaofeng to Han Yuan, a thirty-seven-year-old prince with Dual Spiritual Roots who had reached the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer.
• Yi Xiaofeng proposed that he and Han Yuan compete for the chance to become Bai Hongxiao’s disciple, and Bai Hongxiao chose to test their sword aptitude rather than have them duel.
• Bai Hongxiao gave each of them a sword manual to read once, and Yi Xiaofeng identified the Peacock Facing South Sword as invincible before Han Yuan had finished opening his manual.