Chapter Summaries

Li Wan'er faced a marriage proposal from a powerful family and secretly went to Shu Xinzai, asking him to elope with her. Shu Xinzai hesitated and gave no answer, leaving Li Wan'er to return home disappointed while Ye Jing suspected the scholar was not what he seemed.

• The provincial governor's son proposed to Li Wan'er, while her family celebrated and she felt lonely and resisted having her future decided for her.
• Li Wan'er slipped away at night and went to Shu Xinzai's hut to tell him about the proposal.
• Li Wan'er asked Shu Xinzai to elope with her, but he hesitated because he feared he could not give her a stable future.
• Li Wan'er left after telling Shu Xinzai she would give him time to think, and he returned to his books, unable to focus.
• Ye Jing recognized that Shu Xinzai's spiritual past suggested he was more complicated than he appeared, while Dao Quansha angrily criticized his hesitation.
• Li Wan'er walked back toward the Li residence, hurt by Shu Xinzai's silence and indecision.

After Li Wan'er was kidnapped by the regional inspector’s son and his companions, Shu Xinzai rescued her and unexpectedly awakened powerful strength while fighting them. Dao Quansha watched the scholar’s courage change his opinion and received white qi from him, loosening his own bottleneck.

• Li Wan'er worried that Shu Xinzai might choose a peaceful future without her, but she was suddenly abducted and knocked unconscious.
• Li Wan'er woke bound in a lavish room, where the regional inspector’s son revealed he had arranged her kidnapping for Young Master Wang.
• Shu Xinzai burst in, untied Li Wan'er, and tried to escape with her, but the dandies surrounded and beat him.
• When a dandy slapped Li Wan'er, Shu Xinzai erupted with spiritual energy and defeated the attackers despite his bewilderment at his new strength.
• Shu Xinzai embraced Li Wan'er after the fight, while Dao Quansha reconsidered his judgment of the scholar.
• White qi rose from Shu Xinzai and flowed into Dao Quansha, whose bottleneck began to loosen.

Ye Jing and the allied forces prepared for war as six cultivators entered the Saint Realm, bringing the Human Race’s strength to at least eleven Saints. When the Heavenly Court attacked, the allies repelled its first assault, but Ye Jing and Sage Scholar sensed something was wrong.

• Ye Jing concealed that he had taken the Starlight Crystal, then told the others he had succeeded in loosening his Saint Realm bottleneck.
• Dao Quansha, Kong Yangzi, Liu Qingluan, Liu Tianxing, Zhao Che, and Gong Sui successively broke through into the Saint Realm before the war.
• Ye Jing and the other Saints organized strategies, assigned tasks, trained soldiers, and coordinated with allied forces.
• The Heavenly Court launched an all-out assault, and Yang Jian fought Sage Scholar while Human Saint faced True Martial Great Emperor.
• The allied forces repelled the attack with casualties on both sides, gaining a slight advantage as Ye Jing and Sage Scholar sensed something was wrong.

After the allied Saints suspected Heaven's Court was hiding its true strength, Ye Jing volunteered to scout its headquarters and infiltrated the Military Hall disguised as a Heavenly Soldier. He uncovered an abandoned offensive plan revealing hidden forces nearly half the size of Heaven's Court's current strength and sent the intelligence to Qiuyue, but hurried footsteps interrupted his escape.

• Sage Scholar and the other Saints discussed Heaven's Court's suspiciously weak attack, and Ye Jing urged them to strengthen their alliances and prepare for a more powerful assault.
• Human Saint proposed sending scouts to investigate Heaven's Court, and Ye Jing volunteered to lead the mission, though he secretly intended to go alone.
• After Heaven's Court suffered minor defeats against the Demon Realm and the Taixu Profound Realm, Ye Jing used another attack to disguise himself as a Heavenly Soldier and follow the retreating army back to Heaven's Court.
• Ye Jing infiltrated the Military Hall and found an abandoned draft of a large-scale offensive plan that disclosed hidden forces nearly half the size of Heaven's Court's current strength.
• Ye Jing memorized the plan and sent the information to Qiuyue through the Starlight Crystal, but hurried footsteps sounded as he was about to leave.

Ye Jing was discovered in the Heavenly Court, but the Dragon Tiger Jade Ruyi helped him hide and agreed to aid his plan to kill a Divine General. He attacked Mo Liqing, but the other three Heavenly Kings arrived, and as they overwhelmed him, a powerful force suddenly surged from within Ye Jing.

• The Dragon Tiger Jade Ruyi rescued Ye Jing from searching Heavenly Soldiers and hid with him in a room protected by its master's formation.
• Ye Jing said he would kill Heavenly Court Divine Generals before escaping, and the Dragon Tiger Jade Ruyi agreed to help him evade patrols.
• The pair approached Mo Liqing's residence, where Mo Liqing sensed Ye Jing and confronted him.
• Ye Jing attacked Mo Liqing, but the other three Heavenly Kings arrived, and the four revealed they wanted to capture Ye Jing alive for the Jade Emperor.
• The Four Heavenly Kings struck Ye Jing down and badly wounded him, but a powerful force surged from within his body.

Ye Jing entered the Saint Realm, slew the Four Heavenly Kings, and carried their heads to the Taixu Profound Realm to take revenge on the Ye Imperial Clan. He attacked after rejecting Ye Shitian’s offer of compensation.

• Ye Jing broke through to the Saint Realm and used the Xuanyuan Sword and Dao Principles to kill the Four Heavenly Kings.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, and True Martial Great Emperor arrived at the ruined Heavenly Court and discussed Ye Jing’s strength and the trouble he had caused.
• Ye Jing emerged from the teleportation array carrying the Four Heavenly Kings’ heads and flew toward the Taixu Profound Realm to avenge himself.
• Ye Shitian confronted Ye Jing outside the Ye Imperial Clan’s city and offered compensation to stop the conflict.
• Ye Jing rejected the offer and attacked the Ye Imperial Clan, declaring that he would kill everyone there.

Ye Jing attacked the Ye Imperial Clan and overwhelmed Ye Shitian and the Grand Elder, discovering that the clan used Human Race blood essence to revive its members. He flew into the clan’s depths to destroy the altar powering the method, leaving the altar under attack.

• Ye Jing defeated Ye Shitian in one move, and the Grand Elder joined the fight but was soon beheaded by Ye Jing.
• Ye Jing threatened to kill everyone in the Ye Imperial Clan, while Ye Dao watched in fear.
• The Grand Elder revived again, and Ye Jing realized the clan’s revival method consumed Human Race blood essence.
• Ye Jing beheaded the Grand Elder once more, then flew into the clan’s depths to find the source of the revival method.
• Ye Jing found an altar piled with Human Race heads and blood essence, struck it with the Xuanyuan Sword, and began destroying it as the clan members screamed.

Ye Jing destroyed the Ye Imperial Clan’s altar and defeated its five Saint Realm guardians, leaving the clan in ruins and sealing its escape. Sage Scholar urged restraint, and Ye Jing agreed to spare some clansmen while still punishing those guilty of the clan’s crimes.

• Ye Jing destroyed the altar’s foundation, causing the Ye Imperial Clan’s clansmen to collapse and declaring that the clan would cease to exist.
• Five Saint Realm powerhouses confronted Ye Jing, but he killed them with Xuanyuan Sword and the powers of Endless Life, the Law of Strength, and the Law of Time.
• The surviving Ye Clan members panicked and tried to flee as Ye Jing’s attacks damaged the palaces.
• Ye Jing sealed the palace exit with a sword ray and declared that no one would escape.
• Sage Scholar and Qiuyue arrived, and Qiuyue wept as Ye Jing comforted her over the Sword Sect’s vengeance.
• Sage Scholar warned Ye Jing not to let hatred consume him, and Ye Jing said he would spare some clansmen but kill those who deserved punishment.

Ye Jing destroyed the Ye Imperial Clan and the Li Clan, then persuaded Jian Wuhen and the White-haired Old Man to join the military camp as the alliance prepared for Heaven's Court. As the chapter ended, Ye Jing received a mission to find young talent, and the story introduced the hungry siblings Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue.

• Ye Jing and Qiuyue punished the guilty members of the Ye Imperial Clan, ending the clan, and Ye Jing also wiped out the Li Clan Ancient Clan.
• Jian Wuhen and the White-haired Old Man arrived at the military camp, where Ye Jing persuaded them to join the fight against Heaven's Court by offering them the Grass Character Sword Art.
• The Ye Imperial Clan's destruction strengthened cooperation between the Taixu Profound Realm and the Human Race, while Heaven's Court's slowed attacks gave the Alliance Army more time to prepare its defenses.
• Ye Jing received a mission to search the Profound Yellow Great World for talented young people to help fill the gap in the younger generation.
• In a rain-soaked ancient city, the young beggar Xiao Feng comforted his hungry younger sister Xiao Yue and promised to find her food.

Ye Jing, disguised as a middle-aged traveler, rescued Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue and gave them food and clothes while testing their character. Days later, Zhao Fu offered to adopt one sibling, and the chapter ended with Xiao Feng urging Xiao Yue to accept as she refused to leave him.

• A wealthy young master attacked Xiao Yue, and Xiao Feng fought to protect her until Ye Jing stepped in and drove the bully away.
• Ye Jing gave Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue food and clothing, then left while secretly evaluating them as potential disciples.
• A few days later, Zhao Fu offered to adopt one sibling and told them they had to choose before an incense stick burned down.
• Xiao Feng insisted that Xiao Yue should be adopted, but Xiao Yue tearfully refused to be separated from her brother.

Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue refused to be separated, so Zhao Fu agreed to adopt them both and give them a better life. He brought them to his estate, where they marveled at their new home and enjoyed a feast, while Ye Jing noted that harder tests still awaited them.

• Xiao Yue turned back from Zhao Fu and clung to Xiao Feng, saying she could not leave him behind.
• Xiao Feng asked Zhao Fu to give them both a chance to grow up together, and Zhao Fu agreed to adopt both siblings.
• Ye Jing held Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue’s hands and considered them to have passed the first test, though harder ones remained.
• Zhao Fu brought Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue to his estate, where servants welcomed them as the Young Master and Young Miss.
• Zhao Fu served the siblings a feast, and they eagerly tried the fine food.
• Over the next few months, Zhao Fu took Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue to experience an extravagant life.

Ye Jing tested whether Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue would remain honest after living in luxury by leaving them alone in the manor without money or food. After half a month of surviving on wild herbs and begging, the children still refused to steal Zhao Fu’s valuables, and Ye Jing was pleased with them.

• Zhao Fu left Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue in the manor without silver and arranged for the servants to leave, expecting the children might sell the valuables.
• Xiao Feng defended Zhao Fu when the servants accused him of abandoning them, then tried to care for Xiao Yue after they were left alone.
• Xiao Feng found the kitchen empty and resisted selling the paintings, calligraphy, and jewelry, so he made wild-herb porridge instead.
• Xiao Yue suggested selling jewelry for food, but Xiao Feng firmly refused, and she agreed they should rely on themselves.
• Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue survived on wild herbs and returned to begging without touching the valuables, while Ye Jing watched them for half a month and approved of their conduct.

Ye Jing revealed that he had tested Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue, then disclosed his identity as a cultivator and invited them to become his disciples. They accepted, and at the military camp he assigned Xiao Yue to Palace Mistress Liu and Xiao Feng to Old Freak Wind.

• Ye Jing emerged after watching Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue endure hardship without stealing from the study, and praised them for passing his test.
• Ye Jing revealed that Zhao Fu was one of his identities and invited the children to join him as disciples; Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue eagerly agreed.
• Ye Jing took the children to bathe, change clothes, enjoy a lavish meal, and travel through a formation to the military camp.
• Ye Jing warned Xiao Feng and Xiao Yue that cultivation would bring danger, but both children reaffirmed their choice and said they wanted to grow stronger.
• Ye Jing assigned Xiao Yue to Palace Mistress Liu and Xiao Feng to Old Freak Wind, welcoming both children into the Cultivation World.

Old Freak Wind guided the boy through his first cultivation session while Xiao Yue also sensed spiritual energy for the first time. Elsewhere, Ye Jing found and captured a conscious black orb hidden in a stele, then returned to the military camp before testing its unknown coordinates.

• The boy sensed spiritual energy and learned to circulate it under Old Freak Wind’s guidance.
• Xiao Yue completed her first cultivation session and thought of Ye Jing.
• Ye Jing found a new stone stele in ancient ruins and detected the Evil God’s aura within it.
• Ye Jing shattered the stele and seized a conscious black orb that resisted being captured.
• Ye Jing’s formation first pointed to the stele, then revealed unknown coordinates after he marked it.
• Ye Jing sealed the orb and flew to the military camp to gather everyone before investigating further.

Ye Jing investigated the Evil God’s influence and, with Sage Scholar, cautiously tested the Black Pearl using a clone. The pearl began drawing evil thoughts from Ye Jing, leaving him overcome by murderous intent toward Sage Scholar.

• Ye Jing reasoned that the Evil God had hidden a black egg in the ancient ruin to collect worshippers’ evil thoughts, and recalled that he had been tasked with searching for traces of the Evil God.
• Gongsun Lue reported that the Demon Race of Southern Ridge had quelled its rebellion but was uninterested in attacking the Heavenly Court, and Ye Jing told him to keep investigating in secret.
• Ye Jing considered Qiuyue’s rapid cultivation progress and regretted that she had spent so much time traveling with him instead of training.
• Ye Jing met Sage Scholar, and they discussed how to examine the Black Pearl without risking its unknown connection to the Evil God’s world.
• Ye Jing used his clone to test the Black Pearl inside a protective spiritual array, but the pearl began drawing out his evil thoughts and Ye Jing turned murderous toward Sage Scholar.

Ye Jing and Qi Chun sealed the Black Pearl after discovering it contained the collected evil thoughts of living beings. Ye Jing then searched for other hidden sites tied to the Evil God and found a corrupted village at the Eastern Domain–Southern Ridge border, where he questioned a servant of the Maji God and asked to inspect its statue.

• Ye Jing ended his clone’s connection to the Black Pearl and told Qi Chun that it held immense power and the evil thoughts of living beings.
• Ye Jing and Qi Chun sealed the Black Pearl in a special container inside Qi Chun’s scroll, and Qi Chun urged Ye Jing to keep investigating the Evil God.
• Ye Jing used the Jing organization’s geomantic map to search suspected worship sites and found an ancient village with a statue bearing the Evil God’s traces and another Black Pearl inside it.
• Ye Jing noticed that the Black Pearl’s aura was influencing the villagers, and he questioned an old man who served the Maji God while pretending a friend had directed him there.
• The old man claimed outsiders rarely visited the village, and Ye Jing asked to enter and inspect the statue.

Ye Jing investigated a village influenced by the Evil God, posing as a passing cultivator while searching for signs of its control. After several quiet days yielded no clues, a mysterious hooded figure secretly marked villagers’ doors overnight.

• Ye Jing inspected the sacred statue and sensed the Evil God’s presence, then went to the village to investigate.
• Wang Dazhu introduced Ye Jing to the village chief, whose evil aura was stronger than anyone’s in the village except the guardian elder’s.
• Ye Jing stayed at Wang Dazhu’s home and secretly watched the villagers, but found no clear signs of the Evil God’s control.
• A hooded figure entered the village at night and carved a mysterious symbol onto one house after another.
• The villagers discovered the symbols on their doors the next morning and gathered to discuss them.

Ye Jing used mysterious symbols to draw out an emissary of the Evil God during the villagers’ worship of Mountain God Maji. After the villagers turned against him under the statue’s influence, he used the Chaos Green Lotus to subdue them and immobilize the Cloaked Man.

• The villagers panicked over mysterious symbols, and the village chief led them to prepare offerings for Mountain God Maji.
• Ye Jing followed the villagers to Mount Maji, where a Cloaked Man arrived in response to their worship.
• The Cloaked Man dismissed the symbols as a prank, but Ye Jing’s appearance prompted him to release black aura that turned the villagers against Ye Jing.
• Ye Jing tried to explain that the statue was an Evil God, but the bewitched villagers attacked him, so he knocked them unconscious with his scabbard.
• Ye Jing drew on the Chaos Green Lotus, freezing those carrying Evil God Aura and breaking the black aura around the Cloaked Man.
• Ye Jing approached the helpless Cloaked Man, who asked in terror who he was.

Ye Jing captured a cloaked man who served the Evil God and brought him to Sage Scholar for interrogation. The man revealed the spread of corrupted prayer sites, but the Evil God began consuming him, forcing Ye Jing to intervene with a formation.

• Ye Jing removed the demonic energy from the villagers, replaced the altar statue with a copy, and took the cloaked man to camp.
• Sage Scholar used a truth spell to make the Goatee Man confess that the Evil God had promised him a breakthrough in exchange for service.
• The Goatee Man admitted that he had robbed and murdered a merchant caravan before entering seclusion, and described visiting nearly fifty corrupted prayer sites.
• The Goatee Man said the Evil God had directed him to establish formations and carve Curse Script into statues of the Gods.
• The Evil God spoke through the Goatee Man and covered him in black Curse Script, overpowering Sage Scholar's talismans.
• Ye Jing formed a formation beneath the Goatee Man as Sage Scholar struggled to contain the Evil God's power.

After the Goatee Man exploded while Ye Jing tried to transfer the evil qi, Ye Jing continued hunting the Evil God's Black Pearls and completed a plan for a barrier around the Profound Yellow Great World. He returned to camp to gather the Saints for the defense, but found the soldiers alarmed and the camp tense.

• The Goatee Man's body exploded after Ye Jing transferred the evil qi, destroying the nearby sculpture, and Ye Jing and Sage Scholar concluded that the Evil God could control and learn from its followers.
• Ye Jing rejected Sage Scholar's warning and continued clearing the Evil God's prayer sites, while the two agreed to act at once.
• Ye Jing searched the Eastern Domain, destroyed and sealed many Black Pearls, and found that the Evil God had removed the rest.
• Ye Jing finished designing a barrier to protect the Profound Yellow Great World and cut off its connection to the Three Poisons Realm.
• Ye Jing teleported back to the military camp and saw anxious soldiers moving through a tense camp.