Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing'er revealed her Divine-tier Ice Silence Sword Intent and helped the Sword Sect defeat the Blazing Sun Sect with coordinated tactics. The Eastern Domain Lord took particular interest in the quiet, black-robed, white-haired Chen Feng, whom he suspected was the team’s true core.

• Yan Lie attacked Shi Poshan and Liu Mengli with his Great Sun Burning Heaven Palm, but Lin Qing'er shattered it with Mystic Ice—Nirvana Slash.
• Chen Feng struck Yan Lie while he reeled from the backlash, and Su Wan, Zhao Zijun, and Shi Poshan helped break the Blazing Sun Battle Formation.
• Chen Feng defeated Yan Lie, and the Sword Sect drove the remaining Blazing Sun Sect disciples from the arena to win the match.
• The gathered sect leaders reacted to Lin Qing'er's strength, while Li Tianxing grew more resentful of the Sword Sect.
• The Eastern Domain Lord praised Duan Tian's promising disciples and focused his attention on the quiet Chen Feng.

Lin Hao prepared the Sword Sect disciples for their top-sixteen match against the illusion-specialist Illusory Moon Sect, assigning Liu Mengli and Han Yue to defend the team’s minds. The match began with Huan Wuxin’s illusions overwhelming the arena and striking at each fighter’s deepest fears, while Han Yue tried to hold them steady.

• Lin Hao reviewed the Sword Sect’s earlier performance and identified specific shortcomings for each disciple.
• After learning they would face the Illusory Moon Sect, Lin Hao explained Huan Wuxin’s spiritual strength and planned a defensive strategy centered on Liu Mengli’s Heart Mirror Sword Intent and Han Yue’s Indestructible Sword Intent.
• Liu Mengli and Han Yue took their assigned positions as the Sword Sect team prepared for the top-sixteen match in the main arena.
• When the referee began the match, Huan Wuxin’s team transformed the arena into a moonlit illusion and confronted the Sword Sect disciples with visions of their deepest fears.
• Han Yue roared for his teammates to guard their minds and released his Indestructible Sword Intent to resist the illusions.

The Sword Sect defeated the Illusory Moon Sect after Liu Mengli exposed hidden opponents, Han Yue disrupted their formation, and Lin Qing'er broke Huan Wuxin's Illusion Realm. The Sword Sect advanced to the top eight, drawing attention from rival sects and the Eastern Domain Lord.

• Liu Mengli detected an Illusory Moon Sect disciple hiding in the Illusion Realm, and Lin Qing'er struck and froze her arm with Mysterious Ice Annihilation Slash.
• Huan Wuxin unleashed Thousand Illusions Kill, but Liu Mengli identified the strongest targets while Han Yue shielded her from the assault.
• Lin Qing'er, Chen Feng, and Su Wan attacked the strongest figures, revealing Huan Wuxin as one of them, while Liu Mengli spotted another hidden disciple and Han Yue wounded her.
• Lin Qing'er clashed with Huan Wuxin as Han Yue disrupted the hidden disciple's technique, causing the Illusion Realm to shatter.
• Chen Feng, Su Wan, and Zhao Zijun defeated the remaining Illusory Moon Sect disciples, and the referee declared the Sword Sect victorious.
• The Sword Sect advanced to the top eight, and the Eastern Domain Lord recognized Lin Hao as a key force in the competition.

Lin Hao prepared the Sword Sect’s full seven-member team to counter the Flowing Shadow Pavilion’s stealth and assassination tactics, entrusting Yu Linglong with a key role despite her low cultivation. The teams entered the arena for their top-eight match, where the Domain Lord took special notice of Yu Linglong.

• Lin Hao assessed Ying Wuhen and the Flowing Shadow Pavilion’s stealth techniques, then assigned the Sword Sect members roles to expose and counter their attacks.
• Lin Hao told the doubtful team that Yu Linglong was essential to the strategy, and she resolved to prove herself.
• Lin Hao reminded the seven to hold their formation and wait for the Flowing Shadow Pavilion to make the first mistake.
• The next day, the Sword Sect fielded all seven members against the Flowing Shadow Pavilion in the top-eight round, surprising the crowd.
• The Domain Lord observed Yu Linglong and remarked on the Sword Sect sending the girl out with its full team.

The Sword Sect countered Flowing Shadow Pavilion’s Domain of Darkness, but the assassins focused their attacks on Yu Linglong as the team struggled to defend against their shifting bodies and illusions. Facing a lethal strike, Yu Linglong drew on the Mountainbreaker Sword Intent she had practiced and swung into the darkness.

• Ying Wuhen and Chen Feng exchanged taunts before the quarterfinal match between the Sword Sect and Flowing Shadow Pavilion began.
• Flowing Shadow Pavilion plunged the arena into darkness and surrounded the Sword Sect with illusions, but Shi Poshan, Lin Qing'er, and Liu Mengli helped reveal and slow them.
• Shi Poshan warned that Flowing Shadow Pavilion’s real members had merged into the darkness, and the assassins began launching surprise attacks from within it.
• Han Yue blocked a dagger aimed at Liu Mengli, while the Sword Sect fought off further attacks as Flowing Shadow Pavilion harried them and searched for an opening.
• A peak Lord-tier attacker wounded Yu Linglong, and several assassins then targeted her while the rest of the Sword Sect was occupied.
• Yu Linglong recalled her training at Sword Comprehension Valley and unleashed Mountainbreaker—First Layer with a full-force swing into the darkness.

Yu Linglong’s Mountain Collapse sword techniques turned the battle against the Flowing Shadow Pavilion, and the Sword Sect defeated its opponents. The arena celebrated her breakthrough, while the wounded Ying Wuhen warned that the match should be a lesson.

• Yu Linglong wounded a concealed Flowing Shadow Pavilion attacker with her first Mountain Collapse strike, allowing Liu Mengli, Lin Qing'er, and Chen Feng to take down three opponents.
• Ying Wuhen ordered his team to target Yu Linglong and lunged at her, while Han Yue and Shi Poshan moved to protect her.
• Yu Linglong used Mountain Collapse’s Third Form to overwhelm Ying Wuhen, gravely injuring him and shattering his dagger.
• Chen Feng, Lin Qing'er, and the others defeated the remaining Flowing Shadow Pavilion members, and the referee declared the Sword Sect the winner.
• The arena and Sword Sect leaders praised Yu Linglong, while Ying Wuhen rose and warned her that the battle should serve as a lesson.

After Yu Linglong wounded Ying Wuhen, the Sword Sect learned it would face the formidable Hegemon Body Sect in the semifinals. Lin Hao outlined a strategy built on teamwork and endurance, leaving the seven chosen fighters prepared for a brutal battle.

• Yu Linglong's companions praised her for blocking Ying Wuhen's killing move, while Lin Hao warned that Ying Wuhen had let his guard down.
• Lin Hao and the others discussed the semifinal contenders and worried about the Heavenly Machine Pavilion's hidden strength.
• Duan Tian and Hua Xinyue returned with news that the Sword Sect would face the Hegemon Body Sect, while the Heavenly Machine Pavilion would fight the Profound Nether Sect.
• Lin Hao described the Hegemon Body Sect's powerful fighters, including its chief disciple Man Shan, and explained their strengths and weaknesses.
• Lin Hao assigned roles to Lin Qing'er, Chen Feng, Su Wan, Shi Poshan, Liu Mengli, Han Yue, and Sun Xiaoya, urging them to avoid direct clashes and wear down their opponents together.

Lin Hao explained that the Sword Sect’s future depended on all its disciples growing stronger, then vanished as the Sword Sect faced the Hegemon Body Sect in the semifinals. The Sword Sect was overwhelmed by its opponents’ strength, and Sun Xiaoya stepped in to protect Liu Mengli.

• Lin Hao told Duan Tian and Hua Xinyue that the disciples needed to grow stronger together and promised not to let them be killed.
• The Sword Sect and Hegemon Body Sect began their semifinal match, with Man Shan leading the charge.
• Man Shan struck Han Yue with a single blow, grievously injuring him and smashing the Sword Sect’s defensive line.
• The Hegemon Body Sect’s disciples battered Shi Poshan, Su Wan, Chen Feng, and Lin Qing'er, while their attacks barely broke through the opponents’ defenses.
• A Hegemon Body Sect disciple charged at the weakened Liu Mengli, and Sun Xiaoya intervened with her Spirit Butterfly Sword Intent—Dream Butterfly Dance.

The Sword Sect disciples faced defeat as the Hegemon Body Sect unleashed a combined attack, but Sun Xiaoya discovered how to disrupt its power and struck at its core. The attack collapsed, leaving both teams incapacitated and Sun Xiaoya gravely wounded, while Chen Feng, Lin Qing'er, and Shi Poshan remained standing.

• Sun Xiaoya protected Liu Mengli and harried a Hegemon Body Sect disciple while the wounded Sword Sect team struggled to hold the arena.
• Man Shan linked the seven Hegemon Body Sect disciples' auras and launched their combined Sky Collapsing Ram at the Sword Sect's last defense.
• Sun Xiaoya realized the merged attack had a vulnerable point of connection and concentrated her Spirit Butterfly Sword Intent into a piercing strike.
• Sun Xiaoya's Break Cocoon, Become Butterfly pierced the golden lance's core, causing the combined attack to collapse and severely injure Man Shan and the other Hegemon Body Sect disciples.
• The dispersed power struck Sun Xiaoya and sent her crashing to the ground, leaving Chen Feng, Lin Qing'er, and Shi Poshan as the only ones still standing.

Sun Xiaoya’s decisive strike defeated the Hegemon Body Sect and sent the badly injured Sword Sect to the finals. Lin Hao praised his disciples’ growth, then stayed at Tiandu Arena to study the Heavenly Machine Pavilion’s semifinal against the Profound Nether Sect.

• Sun Xiaoya saw through the Hegemon Body Sect’s combined attack and struck decisively, earning the Sword Sect victory and a place in the finals.
• Duan Tian, Hua Xinyue, and the other Sword Sect disciples tended to their severely injured teammates as Lin Hao praised Sun Xiaoya for her courage.
• Lin Hao reassured the dejected disciples that their growth, teamwork, and trust mattered more than winning the championship.
• Lin Hao sent the Sword Sect disciples back to rest and remained at Tiandu Arena to observe the Heavenly Machine Pavilion face the Profound Nether Sect.

Lin Hao watched the Heavenly Machine Pavilion face the Profound Nether Sect, hoping to learn their methods for the finals. Xing Suanzi and his team countered the Sect’s attacks with precise techniques, but the chapter ended as the Profound Nether Ice Soul Great Formation struck them with a potentially deadly blow.

• Lin Hao stayed behind in the audience stands to observe the match, while the Profound Nether Sect and the full Heavenly Machine Pavilion team took their positions.
• The referee began the match, and You Yu led the Profound Nether Sect in unleashing the Eternal Frozen Underworld domain.
• Xing Suanzi directed his disciples to evade the domain’s attacks, and a Heavenly Machine Pavilion disciple redirected a Profound Nether Ghost Claw into its own companions.
• You Yu attacked Xing Suanzi with the Nine Nether Cold Prison Finger, but Xing Suanzi used the Heavenly Machine Eye to find its weak point and shatter it.
• You Yu ordered his disciples to form the Profound Nether Ice Soul Great Formation, which created a massive phantom that pressed down on the Heavenly Machine Pavilion team.

Xing Suanzi led the Heavenly Machine Pavilion to defeat the Profound Nether Sect with a coordinated star formation, securing a place in the finals. Lin Hao studied their predictive techniques and identified their reliance on their teammates, then returned to find Su Qingya had brought pills that helped several injured Sword Sect members awaken.

• Xing Suanzi restrained You Yu's Profound Nether Ice Soul Phantom with Star Chains, and the Heavenly Machine Pavilion disciples destroyed it with a combined Po Jun strike.
• The referee declared the Profound Nether Sect incapacitated and awarded the match to the Heavenly Machine Pavilion, which advanced to the finals.
• Lin Hao analyzed the Heavenly Machine Pavilion's deductions with the Sword Box and learned that the team's shared auras helped Xing Suanzi react and calculate so quickly.
• Xing Suanzi glanced at Lin Hao as his confusion gave way to a faint smile.
• Lin Hao returned to the courtyard, where Duan Tian said Su Qingya's pills had helped Sun Xiaoya, Han Yue, and Liu Mengli wake up and had aided the other injured disciples' recovery.

With the Sword Sect’s injured disciples unable to compete, Lin Hao prepared to face the Heavenly Machine Pavilion alone in the Sect Competition finals. After forming a strategy to counter Xing Suanzi’s divinations, he arrived at Tiandu Arena as the Eastern Domain Lord stood to begin the final match.

• Su Qingya gave Lin Hao records on the Heavenly Machine Pavilion, and he said the Sword Sect would give the finals everything it had.
• Duan Tian told Lin Hao the injured disciples had improved but could not compete, and Lin Hao went to see them.
• Lin Hao reassured the disciples that he would carry their sword intent and the Sword Sect’s honor into the finals.
• Lin Hao studied Xing Suanzi’s abilities and devised a plan to exploit the Heavenly Machine Pavilion’s reliance on linked auras and divinations.
• The crowd gathered at Tiandu Arena for the finals, and the Eastern Domain Lord rose to address the silent arena.

Lin Hao entered the Eastern Domain Sect Competition final alone against the seven Heavenly Machine Pavilion disciples and revealed a powerful lightning ability that could contest their Star Domain. He evaded Xing Suanzi’s predictions and injured one disciple, but the Pavilion formed the Big Dipper Evil Extermination Formation and summoned a giant sword of stars.

• The Domain Lord opened the final by praising the Sword Sect’s performance and declaring the match begun.
• Lin Hao entered the arena alone and introduced himself as Sword Sect’s Lin Tianya.
• Xing Suanzi and the six Heavenly Machine Pavilion disciples formed their Star Domain to suppress Lin Hao.
• Lin Hao released his Asura Annihilation Divine Thunder and used Endless Thunder Prison to hold back the Star Domain.
• Lin Hao dodged the Star Chains and struck a disciple with lightning-infused Awe-inspiring Sword Qi, overwhelming Xing Suanzi’s divination.
• Xing Suanzi ordered the seven disciples to form the Big Dipper Evil Extermination Formation, which summoned a giant sword of stars.

Lin Hao shattered the Heavenly Machine Pavilion’s formation and defeated all seven members with his fused Thunder Prison Sky Break strike. The referee declared the Sword Sect the Eastern Domain Sect Competition champion and named Lin Tianya the champion, leaving the crowd celebrating his victory.

• Lin Hao broke the Heavenly Machine Pavilion’s giant sword of stars with a precise strike and charged through the formation’s attacks.
• Lin Hao wounded the formation and used clones and Nirvana Shadow to slip through a gap in the defenders.
• Lin Hao fused Thunder Prison Sky Break with One Sword Opens the Heavens and destroyed the six defenders’ stellar shield, leaving all seven Heavenly Machine Pavilion members defeated.
• The referee declared the Heavenly Machine Pavilion unable to fight and announced the Sword Sect as the competition winner and Lin Tianya as champion.
• Duan Tian, Hua Xinyue, and the Sword Sect disciples celebrated, while the Eastern Domain Lord praised Lin Tianya’s victory.

Lin Hao won the Eastern Domain Sect Competition for the Sword Sect and received the Domain Lord’s recognition and rewards. The Domain Lord offered Lin Hao an honorary elder position, and Lin Hao left the decision for discussion with his sect’s elders.

• The Sword Sect celebrated Lin Hao’s championship, while the other sect leaders recognized his strength and worried about how his rise might change the Eastern Domain.
• Xing Suanzi congratulated Lin Hao, accepted his defeat, and acknowledged that the Heavenly Machine Pavilion’s calculations were not infallible.
• The Eastern Domain Lord praised the Heavenly Machine Pavilion and announced substantial cultivation resources as rewards for the Sword Sect.
• The Domain Lord offered Lin Hao the position of honorary elder in the City Lord’s Mansion, and Lin Hao said he would consult his sect’s elders before answering.

After Lin Hao led the Sword Sect to victory, the sect gained the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild as an ally and rapidly rebuilt and grew stronger. Three months later, it opened recruitment to a vast crowd of hopeful young cultivators, beginning a new chapter for the sect.

• Su Qingya offered Lin Hao the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild's resources and a permanent alliance, and Lin Hao accepted.
• The Sword Sect returned from Tiandu City in triumph, and its championship and Lin Hao's battle made it famous across the Eastern Domain.
• Over the next three months, the sect expanded with guild support and its disciples grew stronger; Yu Linglong reached the Lord Realm, while Lin Hao was appointed the sect's second elder.
• The Sword Sect opened its gates to recruit disciples, drawing tens of thousands of young cultivators and their families.

The Sword Sect opened recruitment to martial artists of all disciplines and began testing candidates with a sword-intent stele and spirit-testing pillars. Ye Shiyu and Ye Ling'er endured the trials, and Lin Hao recognized Ye Ling'er as the Ye Family girl he had once saved.

• Duan Tian announced that the Sword Sect would recruit talented candidates regardless of their martial discipline and set the sword-intent stele as the first trial.
• Ye Shiyu and Ye Ling'er endured the stele's pressure for the required time, with Ye Shiyu determined to follow Lin Hao's path and grow stronger.
• The remaining candidates demonstrated their abilities against spirit-testing pillars, and Ye Ling'er struck hers with the Thunder Prison Nine Spears, producing brilliant azure lightning.
• Hua Xinyue and Duan Tian praised Ye Ling'er's talent, while Lin Hao recognized her and recalled teaching her the spear technique.

The Sword Sect completed its recruitment assessment, and Lin Hao selected Ye Shiyu, Yan Dong, and Fang Yan for personal instruction, then invited Ye Ling'er to join them. In Sword Comprehension Valley, he laid down rules for his four disciples and pointed out the flaws each needed to overcome.

• Ye Ling'er demonstrated her Thunder Prison Nine Spears, while Ye Shiyu struck the spirit-testing pillar with her Flowing Water Sword Art and stirred the Sword Intent Stele.
• Duan Tian announced the Sword Sect’s recruits and named Ye Shiyu, Yan Dong, and Fang Yan as candidates for Core Disciple status under Elder Lin Tianya.
• Lin Hao invited Ye Ling'er to train with the others, and the Ye sisters joined Yan Dong and Fang Yan in bowing to him.
• Lin Hao led the four new disciples to Sword Comprehension Valley and set rules against harming fellow disciples, slacking in cultivation, and abusing their power.
• Lin Hao identified Yan Dong’s lack of control, Fang Yan’s shallow grasp of lightning, Ye Ling’er’s lack of spirit in her spear technique, and Ye Shiyu’s overreliance on sharpness.

Lin Hao gave Yan Dong, Fang Yan, Ye Ling'er, and Ye Shiyu tailored cultivation guidance to develop their individual strengths. As the four trained and improved, Sword Comprehension Valley filled with renewed energy and the Sword Sect’s promising disciples began to flourish.

• Lin Hao ordered Yan Dong to temper his fiery nature at the cold pool and Fang Yan to study lightning’s paths and rhythms at the Lightning-Drawing Platform.
• Lin Hao demonstrated the deeper meaning of the Thunder Prison Nine Spears to Ye Ling'er and assigned her waterfall training and meditation to cultivate a binding lightning domain.
• Lin Hao told Ye Shiyu to strengthen her own resilient Flowing Water Sword Intent rather than imitate Ice Silence Sword Intent, and assigned her daily sword practice and two scriptures to study.
• Yan Dong, Fang Yan, Ye Ling'er, and Ye Shiyu trained under Lin Hao’s guidance, gradually improving their control, swordsmanship, and cultivation.
• Chen Feng, Lin Qing'er, and others visited to spar with the four candidates, praising their progress and revealing the Sword Sect’s growing vitality.