Chapter Summaries

Young Master Zheng and Qin Qing explained how Xu Yi had used the Holy Envoy to turn a dangerous standoff to his advantage. Xu Yi then used the families’ public resentment toward the Holy Envoy against them, leaving him in control of the discussion.

• Young Master Zheng explained to County Princess Su that Xu Yi had used the Holy Envoy as leverage to gain standing with the Yun and Yu families.
• Qin Qing and Young Master Zheng told Duke You that staying calm, daring to use the Holy Envoy, and resisting the urge to flee had set Xu Yi apart.
• Yu Zhongtang learned from Seventh Elder Yun that the Holy Envoy had taken Xu Yi’s side and realized the families could not openly challenge him in public.
• Xu Yi suggested that Yu Zhongtang and Seventh Elder Yun secretly resented the Holy Envoy and might threaten him, prompting both men to loudly deny it.
• Xu Yi set the issue aside with the Holy Envoy’s cooperation, keeping control of the conversation while Yu Zhongtang and Seventh Elder Yun fumed.

Xu Yi challenged the Yu Family to a fight and wagered that they would never meddle in Yin Qiu’s affairs again if they lost. When Seventh Elder Yun demanded that his family join, Xu Yi agreed on the condition that Seventh Elder Yun fight alongside at least twenty Yang Venerate experts, leaving the gathered onlookers debating whether Xu Yi truly meant to face them all.

• Xu Yi challenged Yu Zhongtang and demanded that the Yu Family leave Yin Qiu alone if they lost.
• Yu Zhongtang grew furious at Xu Yi’s wager, while Seventh Elder Yun warned him that Xu Yi had defeated several Yun Family experts.
• Seventh Elder Yun insisted that the Yun Family join the wager to secure Yin Qiu’s safety.
• Xu Yi agreed to include the Yun Family, demanding that Seventh Elder Yun take the field with at least twenty Yang Venerate experts.
• Duke You, County Princess Su, and Young Master Zheng debated whether Xu Yi intended to fight the Yun Family’s experts or was using a feint.

Xu Yi forced the Yun and Yu families into a death pact and prepared to fight them, while securing Princess Yinqiu’s safety in case he lost. He asked Qin Qing to protect her and offered her a booklet of writings in exchange.

• Qin Qing wondered whether Xu Yi was bluffing about defeating twenty Yang Venerate experts, but believed he might possess strength beyond his cultivation realm.
• Xu Yi declared that he would fight without using true essence, enraging Seventh Elder Yun and alarming his allies.
• Xu Yi reassured Princess Yinqiu that he would die with her, and she accepted his devotion and let go of her doubts.
• Seventh Elder Yun accepted Xu Yi’s challenge, and Xu Yi pressured Yu Zhongtang to accept as well.
• Xu Yi, Seventh Elder Yun, and Yu Zhongtang signed a death pact that tied the Yun and Yu families to Princess Yinqiu’s safety.
• Xu Yi asked Qin Qing to look after Princess Yinqiu and gave her a booklet of writings as payment.

Xu Yi gave Qin Qing poems in exchange for her help protecting Yin Qiu, then agreed to face the Yu and Yun families in a fight across Jade Floating Mountain. As the crowd reacted to the proposed terms, Yu Zhongtang demanded that Xu Yi keep his promise not to use true essence.

• Xu Yi gave Qin Qing a booklet of poems, and she accepted it and promised to handle the matter he had entrusted to her.
• Seventh Elder Yun warned Yu Zhongtang not to interfere over Yin Qiu, and Yu Zhongtang agreed to postpone dealing with her until after the crisis.
• Xu Yi reassured Yin Qiu, then challenged the Yu and Yun families to begin the fight.
• Seventh Elder Yun set Jade Floating Mountain as the battlefield and said crossing its bounds meant defeat; Xu Yi accepted the terms.
• Xu Yi secretly sent a thought to someone while Yu Zhongtang asked whether Xu Yi would refrain from using his true essence.

Xu Yi insisted he would fight the Yun Family’s twenty Yang Venerates without using True Essence, then left to scout the battlefield. The Yun Family’s elders gathered to plan, with Second Elder Yun demanding they treat the battle as a matter they could not afford to lose.

• Yue Ziling defended Xu Yi against Yu Zhongtang’s challenge, while the Holy Envoy urged Xu Yi to take back his promise.
• Xu Yi declared he would defeat Yu Zhongtang and Seventh Elder Yun without True Essence, then left for Jade Floating Mountain and asked the Holy Envoy to signal the battle with fireworks.
• Seventh Elder Yun and Yu Zhongtang led their respective groups away as Xu Yi’s confidence left the onlookers wondering how he could win without True Essence.
• Second Elder Yun convened the Yun Family’s Elder Council and warned that losing the battle would ruin the family’s reputation.
• Fifth Elder and Sixteenth Elder dismissed the threat, but Second Elder Yun rebuked them and insisted the Yun Family prepare to kill Xu Yi.

The Yun Family Elders assessed Xu Yi’s mysterious attack and prepared an exceptionally well-equipped force to fight him. They ended by deciding to use four concealed divine treasures with twenty-one Mind Fruits, while Seventh Elder Yun vowed that Xu Yi would die.

• Second Elder Yun asked the four wounded elders to describe their encounters with Xu Yi, but none could explain how he had overwhelmed them.
• Seventh Elder Yun identified Xu Yi’s weapon as a divine weapon, and Second Elder Yun warned that the Yun Family must treat him as its greatest calamity.
• Second Elder Yun arranged for twenty-one fighters to form seven groups and equipped them with battle robes, talismans, and other treasures.
• Seventh Elder Yun and Second Elder Yun independently chose the characters “Conceal” and “Divine,” revealing that both had the same treasure in mind.
• Second Elder Yun promised the Yun Family’s four remaining treasures and twenty-one Mind Fruits to strengthen their plan, and Seventh Elder Yun vowed to kill Xu Yi.

The Yun family prepared to fight Xu Yi while the gathered guests demanded to watch the battle. The Holy Envoy secured a Boundary Barrier Pearl to keep the fight fair, and Princess Yinqiu relayed Xu Yi’s suggestion to open a betting pool.

• Second Elder Yun returned with more than twenty Yun family experts and accepted the Holy Envoy’s request to capture Xu Yi alive if possible.
• Young Master Zheng asked to watch the fight, and Second Elder Yun agreed to let the gathered guests observe it through the Tonghua Disk.
• The Holy Envoy proposed sealing the arena with the Boundary Barrier Pearl, and Second Elder Yun agreed.
• Princess Yinqiu told the Holy Envoy that Xu Yi had suggested opening a betting pool.

The Holy Envoy opened a betting pool before the battle between Xu Yi and the Yun Family began. While the spectators watched the Yun Family search Jade Floating Mountain for Xu Yi, the Yun elders remained hidden in the clouds and struggled to find him.

• The Holy Envoy accepted Xu Yi’s proposal, announced a betting pool, and received the crowd’s approval.
• Second Elder Yun settled the odds, and a crimson flare marked the start of the battle.
• The spectators watched as the Yun Family’s four squads searched for Xu Yi without finding him for half an hour.
• Thirteenth Clan Elder wondered whether Xu Yi had fled, but Fourteenth Elder Yun argued that he stayed for Yinqiu.
• Fourteenth Elder Yun explained that the squads used Hidden Spirit Pearls to conceal their auras and searched only by sight to avoid exposing themselves to Xu Yi’s divine sense.

Xu Yi lured six Yun family experts into an ambush and killed them with a golden streak and a sea of flames. In Yufu Palace, the Yun family learned that three elders and three inner guards were dead, and Second Elder Yun killed the attendant who delivered the news.

• The Yun elders spotted Xu Yi emerging from Jade Wave Pool and pursued him to a cave, where three more Yun experts joined them.
• In Yufu Palace, Qin Qing told County Princess Su and the others that Xu Yi's emergence from the lake seemed suspicious and predicted the Yun family would be in danger.
• A golden streak shot from the cave and struck Fourteenth Elder Yun and Fifteenth Elder Yun as flames engulfed the six Yun experts.
• The golden streak swept through the flames and killed all six Yun family members, while part of the palace's enormous screen went black.
• A red-robed attendant reported that the Life Soul Tablets of Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Elders and three inner guards had shattered, and Second Elder Yun killed the attendant in a burst of fireballs.

Xu Yi killed six Yang Venerables and escaped with their Sumeru Rings after the Soul-Summoning Banner changed. The surviving Yun Household members gathered at the massacre site and debated how their ambush had failed, while spectators in Yufu Palace struggled to explain how Xu Yi had countered the Hidden Spirit Pearls and broken an Ingot Robe.

• Xu Yi collected six Yang Venerable souls with the Soul-Summoning Banner, saw its three Law Patterns turn jade-white, and fled with the six Sumeru Rings.
• Seventh Elder Yun and the other surviving Yun Household members arrived, gathered the remains, and mourned their dead kin.
• Third Elder Yun demanded an explanation for how Thirteenth Clan Elder Yun and his team had been caught off guard, and Sixth Elder Yun reconstructed the ambush from the scene.
• Seventh Elder Yun identified three unanswered questions: how Xu Yi found the Hidden Spirit Pearl users, how he concealed himself from their spiritual sense, and how he broke an Ingot Robe in one strike.
• In Yufu Palace, Young Master Zheng and Duke You speculated about the ambush, while County Princess Su argued that the Yun Household would not have made a careless mistake; Young Master Zheng noted that the group must have taken Mind Fruits.

Sixth Elder Yun explained the deaths of Yun Shi San and the others as the result of a Hidden Treasure Array, convincing the Yun family and the hall despite Qin Qing’s doubts. The discussion turned to the Ingot Robe after Seventh Elder Yun asked for Sixth Elder Yun’s opinion on its breach.

• Sixth Elder Yun found spirit stone ash, damp moss, and faint formation-flag marks inside the cave.
• Sixth Elder Yun identified the traces as a Hidden Treasure Array and claimed it had exposed Yun Shi San and the others while concealing the bandit.
• Sixth Elder Yun said the bandit had anticipated pursuers and set the array as an alarm and protection mechanism.
• Third Elder Yun and the others accepted Sixth Elder Yun’s explanation, but Qin Qing suspected it had been invented to fit the evidence.
• Seventh Elder Yun asked Sixth Elder Yun what he thought about the Ingot Robe being breached.

The Yun family debated how to counter the hidden attacker, suspecting a traitor and settling on a plan to lure him into an ambush. Before they could act, the attacker struck Seventh Elder Yun and unleashed a devastating sea of fire, leaving Qin Qing astonished.

• Sixth Elder Yun and Seventh Elder Yun suspected that a traitor had revealed the Ingot Robe’s weak point, while Young Master Zheng explained the treasure to Qin Qing and the others.
• Third Elder Yun demanded that Seventh Elder Yun identify the culprit, and Sixth Elder Yun proposed staying together and provoking the attacker into revealing himself.
• Seventh Elder Yun worried that fighting openly would cost the family its advantage and more lives, but Sixth Elder Yun persuaded him to use the Hidden Spirit Pearl to prepare an ambush.
• Seventh Elder Yun agreed to let Sixth Elder Yun take two men and lie in wait, but a streak of golden lightning shot from the cave and shattered three of his cinnabar marks.
• A massive explosion engulfed the Yun family in a sea of fire, and Qin Qing praised the attacker’s audacity and ingenuity.

Xu Yi’s fire talisman and follow-up attack wiped out the Yun family elders at Jade Floating Mountain, while the Holy Envoy and the spectators in Yufu Palace witnessed his victory. The Tonghua Disk went dark after confirming the deaths, leaving Second Elder Yun collapsed and Qin Qing resolved to refine her Mystical Treasure.

• The Holy Envoy sealed Yufu Palace to prevent Second Elder Yun from interfering in the battle at Jade Floating Mountain.
• Xu Yi’s Level 1 Grade 4 fire talisman killed three guards and trapped the remaining Yun family elders inside the Ingot Robe’s weakening barrier.
• Third Elder Yun used the Ice Soul Light Needle and Water element Spirit Stones to break through the talisman field, but a golden light then struck the Yun family group.
• The Tonghua Disk exploded after all twenty-one Yun family Yang Venerate mighty figures died, and Second Elder Yun collapsed.
• The Holy Envoy celebrated Xu Yi’s victory as Young Master Zheng, Duke You, and the others reacted with shock.
• Qin Qing admitted she could not match Xu Yi and decided to refine her Mystical Treasure.

Xu Yi hid in a cave to count the spoils from his battle with the Yun family, finding a great fortune but lacking the knowledge to use many of his talismans. He recalled how he had turned the Yun family’s Hidden Spirit Pearl ambush plan against them, then waited near the cave he had chosen as the final battlefield.

• Xu Yi hid in a stone cave and counted more than six million Spirit Stones, Mystical Talismans, battle armor, seven Hidden Spirit Pearls, and other treasures taken from the Yun family.
• Xu Yi set aside the Ice Soul Light Needle because he could not use it, and weighed his gains against the Flame Burst Talisman and Magnetic Core Beads he had spent.
• Xu Yi recalled that he had planned to use his Hidden Spirit Pearl and Shapeshifting Bone Sword to ambush the Yun family in Jade Floating Mountain.
• Xu Yi detected the Yun family using Hidden Spirit Pearls to conceal themselves and changed his tactics, tracking their elusive presence instead of attacking recklessly.
• Xu Yi found a cave in the mountain as the final battlefield, hid in Jade Wave Pool nearby, and waited for the Yun family to enter the range of his divine sense.

Xu Yi ambushed and killed Yun Shi San and the Yun Family cultivators who had pursued him, then escaped after collecting their souls. The chapter explained how Yun Zhongge’s information, the thunder-tempered Shapeshifting Bone Sword, and Qin Qing’s Body Shooting Art had enabled Xu Yi’s decisive attack.

• Xu Yi lured the Yun Family’s Thirteenth Clan Elder and his group to a cave, concealed himself with the Hidden Spirit Pearl, and killed them in a surprise attack.
• Xu Yi had forced Yun Zhongge to reveal the Ingot Robe’s secrets and weak points by threatening to destroy the Heart-Devouring Bottle.
• Xu Yi’s Shapeshifting Bone Sword had turned gold and grown immensely powerful after being exposed to thunder during his cultivation of the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art.
• Xu Yi used the Body Shooting Art with his dense divine sense to wield the bone sword at close range and destroy the Ingot Robe before killing the Yun Family cultivators.
• Xu Yi collected the dead cultivators’ souls with the Soul-Summoning Banner, left false trails, and escaped through another cave exit.

Xu Yi ambushed and killed all twenty-one Yun Family experts, then returned to Yufu Palace and called on the Yu Family to honor the life-and-death pact. Yu Zhongtang hesitated to fight, and the Envoy proposed that the two families settle the matter peacefully.

• Xu Yi lured the Yun Family elders back into the cave and used a Flame Burst Talisman and Magnetic Core Beads to leave them helpless before killing them with the Shapeshifting Bone Sword.
• Xu Yi changed into blue robes and returned to Yufu Palace, where the witnesses reacted to the Yun Family’s defeat.
• Second Elder Yun charged at Xu Yi, but Xu Yi warned him against attacking in the Envoy’s presence, and the Envoy confirmed Xu Yi’s victory.
• Xu Yi demanded that Yu Zhongtang take the field as agreed, while Yu Zhongtang struggled to decide whether to risk fighting or withdraw.
• The Envoy urged Yu Zhongtang to avoid a fight and let the Yun and Yu families settle their dispute, citing the bond between Xu Yi and Princess Yinqiu.

Yu Zhongtang agreed to fight Xu Yi after Second Elder Yun persuaded him and joined the Yu Family as its Guest Elder. As the fight approached, Qin Qing left to protect Yingqiu, and Xu Yi gave her a rare Water Spirit Stone.

• The Holy Envoy offered Yu Zhongtang a way to avoid fighting, but Second Elder Yun privately urged him to defend the Yu Family's honor.
• Yu Zhongtang returned and announced that he and the newly appointed Yu Family Guest Elder, Second Elder Yun, would fight Xu Yi.
• Second Elder Yun defended his right to join the fight under the death contract and resolved to kill Xu Yi at any cost.
• Xu Yi accepted the two-on-one fight and signaled Qin Qing to help keep Yingqiu safe.
• Qin Qing announced that she had to leave, and Xu Yi gave her a high-grade Water Spirit Stone and asked her to look after his younger sister.

Xu Yi sent Yinqiu to the Taiqing Upper Sect with the Water Spirit Stone and prepared to fight Yu Zhongtang and Second Elder Yun. The Holy Envoy sealed the Immortal Dance Plaza so the battle could begin within fixed boundaries.

• Xu Yi gave Qin Qing the top-grade Water Spirit Stone to help protect Yinqiu at the Taiqing Upper Sect, and he promised Yinqiu they would meet again.
• After Yinqiu and Qin Qing left, Xu Yi taunted Second Elder Yun and Yu Zhongtang and demanded they set the terms of the fight.
• In a secret chamber, Second Elder Yun persuaded Yu Zhongtang to proceed by promising Yun Family treasures and arguing they could win if Xu Yi refrained from using true essence.
• Yu Zhongtang chose the Immortal Dance Plaza for the fight and confirmed Xu Yi would not use true essence, while Xu Yi asked whether the fighters could leave the plaza.
• Second Elder Yun offered to use an Exquisite Pagoda to seal the area, but the Holy Envoy intervened and sealed the plaza with the Golden Bull Horn.

Xu Yi killed Yu Zhongtang and Second Elder Yun during their death-agreement duel, then left after the Envoy declared him the winner. The ruling secured Yinqiu a path to survival, while Xu Yi promised to help the Envoy with the Heart-Devouring Worm later.

• The Envoy opened a sealed space, and Yu Zhongtang and Second Elder Yun attacked Xu Yi as soon as the light gate vanished.
• Xu Yi’s Magnetic Core Bead explosion shattered the talismans’ spell fields and the Golden Bull Horn’s barrier, injuring both opponents while leaving him unharmed.
• Xu Yi killed Yu Zhongtang and Second Elder Yun with a golden strike and Sky Spears that destroyed their emerging souls.
• The Envoy announced Xu Yi’s victory and confirmed that the death agreement had taken effect, protecting Yinqiu from further retaliation.
• County Princess Su, Duke You, and Young Master Zheng discussed how Xu Yi had won, but could not explain how he survived the explosion.
• Xu Yi told the Envoy he would leave a means to address the Heart-Devouring Worm at the Merchant Alliance Headquarters on Jiannan Road, then departed.

Xu Yi escaped Yun Ming’s max-level frost wonder-talisman after seizing Yun Zhongge, while the Holy Court recalled Liu Youde. Yun Ming then announced that the Yun Family had sealed off the region around Jade Floating Mountain until Xu Yi was captured.

• Yun Ming ambushed Xu Yi with a first-tier, max-level frost wonder-talisman, but Xu Yi destroyed the talisman field with Magnetic Core Beads and escaped using Swift Wind Talismans.
• Xu Yi seized Yun Zhongge and vanished, leaving Yun Ming to condemn him as a treacherous thief.
• Liu Youde confronted Yun Ming, who showed a Shadow-Sound Pearl recording of a seventh-rank Star Official ordering Liu Youde back to the Holy Court.
• County Princess Su, Young Master Zheng, and Duke You exchanged thoughts about Yun Ming’s strength, the Holy Court’s intervention, and the Yun Family’s resources.
• Yun Ming introduced himself as the Yun Family’s Great Elder and announced that the family had sealed off the region around Jade Floating Mountain, asking the guests to remain until Xu Yi was caught.