Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian and Jian Jingzheng investigated Sword Participation Institute student Ruan Shuo over the stolen Transcendent materials and murdered guards. After Ruan Shuo explained why he had left the Sword Pavilion early, Fu Qian suddenly attacked him, leaving Jian Jingzheng knocked aside.

• Lanaia told Fu Qian that Ruan Shuo had left the Sword Pavilion early and asked him to check whether Ruan Shuo was at the academy and had suspicious materials.
• Jian Jingzheng arrived to join the investigation and accompanied Fu Qian to Ruan Shuo's dormitory.
• Ruan Shuo explained that he had left the Sword Pavilion because he felt restless and his blood and qi surged when he tried to concentrate.
• Jian Jingzheng dismissed Fu Qian's suspicions and asked to report back to Lanaia.
• Fu Qian asked Ruan Shuo if he was ready to die, then struck Jian Jingzheng and sent him flying.

Fu Qian attacked Ruan Shuo and exposed him as a slaughter-obsessed swordsman whose body had mutated under the influence of the Sword of Slaughter. Fu Qian killed Ruan Shuo, but received no containment-complete notification, leaving the true mission target undiscovered.

• Fu Qian struck Jian Jingzheng and Ruan Shuo, prompting Ruan Shuo to reveal his murderous intent and transform into a blade-like creature.
• Ruan Shuo charged Fu Qian with increasing speed and strength as slaughter fueled his power, while Fu Qian fought him at close range.
• Ruan Shuo used a hidden third hand to stab Fu Qian, but Fu Qian tore it off and struck through the wound.
• Fu Qian crushed Ruan Shuo's head and realized that something abnormal had taken control of him, but no mission-complete notification appeared.
• Jian Jingzheng criticized Fu Qian for attacking an instructor without evidence, and Fu Qian told him to seek justice from Li Weixuan.

Fu Qian discovered that Ruan Shuo had attacked the warehouses, but killed him during the investigation before learning he was not the target he sought. He explained the case to Lanaia and confronted Jia Yi, who doubted the investigation and threatened to contact the Night Watchers.

• Fu Qian left after killing Ruan Shuo, who had concealed his transformation and the gains he had made at Sword Pavilion.
• Fu Qian told Lanaia that Ruan Shuo was dead and agreed to go explain the investigation to Jia Yi.
• Lanaia confronted Fu Qian over killing Ruan Shuo and injuring Jian Jingzheng, while Fu Qian said the death had not been intentional.
• Jia Yi criticized the investigation as cursory and said he might contact the Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian suggested Jia Yi could question Ruan Shuo himself, leaving Jia Yi frightened and silent.

Fu Qian defended his actions during the investigation before academy officials, admitting to beating Jian Jingzheng and threatening Jia Yi while arguing that his choices had prevented greater trouble. He ended the meeting by asking to make Ji Liushuang his student, claiming the Sword Participation Institute was wasting her talent.

• On the drive back, Fu Qian explained to Lanaia that he had bluffed about Ruan Shuo to resolve the dispute quickly, and they discussed how unusually powerful and increasingly common Sword Intent seemed to be.
• Fu Qian was summoned to a meeting with academy officials, where he admitted to beating Jian Jingzheng and accused him of failing to check for traces of supernatural materials before trying to stop Ruan Shuo's arrest.
• Fu Qian told the officials that Ruan Shuo had prepared to use him and Jian Jingzheng as sacrifices, persuading them that his actions had protected the students despite his rash methods.
• Fu Qian admitted threatening Jia Yi to end the dispute with the Yuan Clan's representative, and denied harassing Ji Liushuang, saying she had asked him for cultivation advice.
• When the officials asked whether he had anything else to say, Fu Qian requested that Ji Liushuang become his student, saying the Sword Participation Institute was wasting her talent.

Fu Qian secured permission to enter the Sword Pavilion and observed that Ji Liushuang’s hollow state had worsened. He warned her to stay alert, then suddenly pressed a finger to her forehead and unleashed killing intent.

• Fu Qian provoked Jian Jingzheng by criticizing the Sword Participation Institute and asking Ji Liushuang to inherit his legacy.
• Jian Jingzheng offered Fu Qian free access to the Sword Pavilion and said Ji Liushuang could transfer if she wished.
• Lanaia warned Fu Qian that Jian Jingzheng would cause him trouble, but Fu Qian remained unconcerned.
• Fu Qian entered the Sword Pavilion and noticed Yuan Xin’s chill had intensified while Ji Liushuang seemed distracted and increasingly hollow.
• Fu Qian spoke with Ji Liushuang about Ruan Shuo and warned her to stay alert before pressing her forehead and releasing killing intent.

Fu Qian tested Ji Liushuang’s unusual intuition and tried to recruit her from the Sword Participation Institute to the Academy of Revelation. The chapter leaves the students celebrating Li Weixuan’s new demigod status as he recognizes Ji Liushuang’s Sword Heart Clarity.

• Fu Qian discovered that Ji Liushuang’s Sword Intent let her sense that his threat was only a test.
• Fu Qian asked Ji Liushuang to join the Academy of Revelation, but she wanted to know whether that path could make her a demigod.
• Ji Liushuang revealed that she already knew Li Weixuan had become a demigod, and the Sword Pavilion’s swords flew to him as he demonstrated his power.
• Fu Qian told Li Weixuan he wanted Ji Liushuang as his student, and Li Weixuan praised her Sword Intent.
• Li Weixuan recognized Ji Liushuang’s state as Sword Heart Clarity.

Li Weixuan publicly shared his cultivation insights after ascending to demigod, while Fu Qian watched the Sword Participation Institute for clues about the Legacy of the Sword Heart. As the students’ Sword Intent resonated together, Fu Qian realized the Legacy might be a collective phenomenon rather than a single person, and Ji Liushuang turned toward him with vacant eyes.

• Li Weixuan praised the students’ progress and announced he would share insights from his ascension.
• Students from across the Academy gathered outside the Sword Pavilion to hear Li Weixuan’s lecture, and Lanaia warned Fu Qian that Li Weixuan might disapprove of his past actions.
• Jian Jingzheng taunted Fu Qian, who replied that he had come to learn from the demigod’s insights.
• Li Weixuan demonstrated how he could draw traces of Sword Intent from the students’ swords, inspiring the students and strengthening their shared resonance.
• Fu Qian realized the Legacy of the Sword Heart might be the collective connection formed by everyone’s Sword Intent, and Ji Liushuang turned toward him with vacant eyes.

Fu Qian suspected the Legacy of the Sword Heart had noticed him and was influencing the Sword Participation Institute members, so he tried to hide from their attention. Ji Liushuang then announced she would follow him to the Academy of Revelation, but Fu Qian refused to take her on and left her in the care of others.

• Fu Qian noticed Sword Participation Institute members repeatedly glancing at him and suspected the Legacy of the Sword Heart was observing him.
• Fu Qian hid behind the crowd to make himself harder to observe, and Ji Liushuang left the sword formation to find him.
• Ji Liushuang told Fu Qian she had decided to go with him to the Academy of Revelation.
• Jian Jingzheng accused Fu Qian of using a trick to threaten Ji Liushuang, but Fu Qian refused to teach her and asked Jian Jingzheng to take her back.
• Lanaia led Ji Liushuang away, and Li Weixuan examined her and thought she was overwhelmed by emotion.

Fu Qian suspected the sword formation’s Legacy of the Sword Heart was growing and influencing people, so he refused Li Weixuan’s invitation and challenged Yuan Xin’s claims. As Fu Qian watched the formation, Li Weixuan suddenly killed Lanaia with Sword Intent.

• Fu Qian suspected the sword formation was growing by spreading Sword Intent and worried that destroying the Legacy of the Sword Heart would be difficult.
• Li Weixuan invited Fu Qian to join the lesson, but Fu Qian refused to leave his place in the shadows.
• Yuan Xin denounced Fu Qian and the Academy of Revelation, and Fu Qian retorted that Yuan Xin could not defeat him.
• Yuan Xin insulted Ji Liushuang, who remained vacant and unresponsive.
• Li Weixuan distracted Lanaia, then attacked her with Sword Intent and killed her despite her attempts to escape.

Fu Qian fought Li Weixuan after the demigod killed Lanaia, while an unseen influence manipulated Li Weixuan into believing Fu Qian and Lanaia had plotted against him. Fu Qian killed Yuan Xin and confronted Ji Liushuang, then turned back to face Li Weixuan.

• Li Weixuan accused Fu Qian and Lanaia of framing him, revealed that he had killed Lanaia, and attacked Fu Qian with sword energy.
• Fu Qian stopped Li Weixuan's strike with Tendril Barrage Devastator, slipped into the sword formation, and seized Yuan Xin.
• Fu Qian tore Yuan Xin apart after the student threatened him, then faced Li Weixuan as the crowd withdrew from the battlefield.
• Fu Qian approached Ji Liushuang, who held Lanaia's corpse, and told her that he would prove his own bloodline exceptional.
• Ji Liushuang rejected Fu Qian's attempt to change sides, and he turned to attack Li Weixuan.

Fu Qian confirmed that a mysterious entity controlled the comprehension of Sword Intent, then transformed to fight the demigod Li Weixuan. As Li Weixuan kept him at range and wounded him, Fu Qian finally got an unusual arm against the demigod’s waist.

• Fu Qian transformed into a giant and attacked Li Weixuan with his Biochemical Demon Arm.
• Fu Qian activated Mythical Form to strengthen his attack, wounded Li Weixuan, and forced him to retreat.
• Li Weixuan recognized Fu Qian’s desire to get close and decided to keep him at a distance with sword energy.
• Fu Qian continued pursuing Li Weixuan despite sustaining multiple wounds.
• Li Weixuan destroyed Fu Qian’s tentacles, then noticed a slender, oddly shaped arm pressed against his waist.

Fu Qian killed Li Weixuan with a disguised attack, then used Transcendence to restart his attempt after the academy’s demigods trapped him. He returned to the Sword Pavilion and began trying to attract the swarm by pursuing Sword Intent.

• Fu Qian disguised his transformed arm as a tentacle and used Internal Organ Critical Hit to grievously wound Li Weixuan.
• Fu Qian finished Li Weixuan with a demigod-level Air Bullet, but the mission-completed prompt did not appear as the academy’s demigods closed in.
• Fu Qian activated Transcendence to escape and restart the sequence, then entered the Sword Pavilion again.
• Fu Qian climbed to the fourth floor, where he saw Ji Liushuang and focused on the black greatsword to draw the swarm’s attention and seek Sword Intent.

Fu Qian entered the Sword Pavilion and endured a torrent of Sword Intent while pretending he had suddenly awakened to the sword. After Lanaia told him about a recent massacre, he left with her to investigate another Yuan Clan warehouse, where he expected to encounter Ruan Shuo.

• The middle-aged guard caught Fu Qian on the Sword Pavilion’s fourth floor, but Fu Qian claimed he had joined the Sword Participation Institute after awakening to Sword Intent.
• Fu Qian displayed a second, blood-red Sword Intent to the guard, Ji Liushuang, and Lanaia while secretly resisting the flood of Sword Intent that “it” poured into his mind.
• Lanaia arrived looking for Fu Qian and took him away after explaining that a massacre had recently occurred.
• Lanaia drove Fu Qian from the academy as he asked whether the Yuan Clan had another warehouse nearby, expecting to catch Ruan Shuo there.

Fu Qian and Lanaia rushed to another warehouse after he suspected the killer would strike again, where Ruan Shuo ambushed Fu Qian and was killed. When Jia Yi questioned Fu Qian’s suspicious arrival, Fu Qian revealed that the warehouse had two dead rather than one.

• Fu Qian told Lanaia his Sword Intent made him understand the killer’s urge to slaughter, and she called Jia Yi for the address of another warehouse.
• Lanaia and Fu Qian arrived at the warehouse, where screams drew Lanaia inside while Ruan Shuo ambushed Fu Qian.
• Fu Qian defeated Ruan Shuo with a single punch and killed him before Lanaia returned.
• Jia Yi arrived and questioned how Fu Qian had found the killer, while Lanaia identified the masked corpse as the warehouse attacker.
• After Jia Yi reported one dead and two injured, Fu Qian corrected him, saying there were two dead.

Fu Qian and Lanaia returned to the academy to investigate Ruan Shuo’s attack, where Fu Qian’s claim to have Sword Intent was confirmed. Li Weixuan emerged from seclusion to test Fu Qian, and Fu Qian’s Sword Intent took on the same murderous quality as Ruan Shuo’s, deepening suspicions of a conspiracy.

• Fu Qian left Ruan Shuo’s body with Jia Yi and hurried back to the academy with Lanaia, convinced the killer came from the Sword Participation Institute.
• Lanaia brought Fu Qian to meet Jian Jingzheng and asked him to confirm Ruan Shuo’s identity and student status.
• Fu Qian admitted he had entered the Sword Pavilion, while Jian Jingzheng threatened to report him for breaking its rules.
• Li Weixuan emerged from seclusion because his Sword Heart had become unsettled, then confirmed he sensed Sword Intent in Fu Qian.
• Li Weixuan tested Fu Qian, causing Fu Qian’s Sword Intent to surge with bloodlust like the Sword Intent Ruan Shuo had displayed.

Fu Qian realized that the swarm had engineered the accusations against him to make him sever his connection to the Sword Intent, so he stopped before doing so and confessed to the killings. The chapter left Lanaia, Li Weixuan, and Jian Jingzheng facing his sudden admission.

• Li Weixuan questioned Fu Qian about his Sword Intent and the Warehouse massacre after Jian Jingzheng shared documents with him.
• Li Weixuan ordered Fu Qian and Lanaia to accompany him to the Committee, and Fu Qian agreed.
• Fu Qian began trying to strip the Sword Intent from his body but realized the swarm had manipulated him into doing so.
• Fu Qian stopped walking and said he was the one who had killed them.

Fu Qian confessed to arranging the murders and provoked Li Weixuan into attacking, but Li Weixuan deliberately struck the ground instead. Fu Qian left convinced that “it” was trying to make him sever his connection to the swarm, then returned to his office, where Ji Liushuang suddenly attacked him.

• Fu Qian confessed that he had arranged the killings and claimed he had used Ruan Shuo as a scapegoat.
• Fu Qian called the victims' deaths a righteous sacrifice for research, provoking Li Weixuan and Jian Jingzheng.
• Li Weixuan's sword qi veered away from Fu Qian and struck the ground, confirming Fu Qian's suspicion that “it” did not want him killed before he severed his connection to the swarm.
• Fu Qian walked out of the room, leaving Lanaia and Jian Jingzheng bewildered as Li Weixuan let him go.
• After Fu Qian returned to his Academy of Revelation office, Ji Liushuang entered and attacked him with her sword.

Fu Qian met the being behind Ji Liushuang in the Heart-Questioning Sword Prison, where it offered to make him its retainer in exchange for power and protection. He refused, then trapped them both in the prison and declared that one of them had to die.

• Ji Liushuang used the Heart-Questioning Sword to bring Fu Qian's consciousness into the Sword Prison and explained that neither of them could lie there.
• The being proposed that Fu Qian become its retainer, promising him power, protection, and influence over those who comprehended Sword Intent.
• Fu Qian questioned when the being had merged with Sword Intent, and it admitted that it had fully assimilated it a few years earlier and had since answered people's pleas.
• Fu Qian rejected the offer, saying he pursued freedom and would not deceive himself about his choices.
• The being tried to dissolve the Sword Prison, but Fu Qian kept it intact through his own will and insisted that one of them had to die.

Fu Qian faced the Legacy of the Sword Heart in a battle of wills inside the Sword Prison, where it trapped him in a deadly dream with Ji Liushuang. He exposed the dream’s rules and defeated the entity, returning to the office as the mission to contain Entity 2-010 was completed.

• Fu Qian refused to attack Ji Liushuang in the Sword Prison and waited with her, forcing the entity to make its next move.
• Ji Liushuang transformed the empty space into a shopping mall and began a game in which Fu Qian and Ji Liushuang were hunted by a powerful creature.
• Fu Qian dragged Ji Liushuang through the mall as the creature pursued them, and she apologized for bringing them into danger.
• As the creature entered the elevator, Fu Qian realized that fearing defeat—not being caught—would cause him to lose the battle of wills.
• Fu Qian taunted the creature and rejected its claim to the Heart of the Sword, causing the dream and Sword Prison to shatter.
• Fu Qian returned to the office, where Ji Liushuang still held a sword to his brow, and the system confirmed Entity 2-010 had been contained.

After completing the mission, Fu Qian unexpectedly became an unstable demigod and discovered that he could use demigod-level power. As he prepared to leave home, he heard a familiar voice calling his name.

• Ji Liushuang came to her senses in the office and drew back her sword, while Fu Qian greeted her calmly.
• In the Warehouse, Fu Qian's body changed through several monstrous forms before returning to normal.
• Fu Qian received the Flesh into Divinity achievement reward and learned he needed to find traits to solidify his demigod form.
• Fu Qian tested his new power by firing a stronger Air Bullet without using his Mythical Form.
• After returning home, Fu Qian heard an indistinct voice calling his name, then heard it again more clearly as he was about to leave.