Chapter Summaries

Yun Shu fought the Dragon Bone in the Dragon Pool, gaining the upper hand but failing to damage or control it. After learning that Seventh Realm Mental Energy and a mind-control technique might subdue the bone, he surfaced and began cultivating, leaving the Patriarch doubtful that he could reach that level in time.

• Yun Shu fought the Dragon Bone for half a day, eventually matching its strength and forcing it back without harming it.
• Demons trapped in the Dragon Pool's Illusion Realm waited uneasily as the pool shook and they continued absorbing its power.
• The Dragon Bone attacked Yun Shu with golden source energy, and the Patriarch explained that the energy came from the True Dragon and could strengthen Yun Shu's body.
• Yun Shu asked how to control the Dragon Bone, and the Patriarch said the Illusion Immortal Bead could affect its weak mind but was occupied, while Yun Shu would need Seventh Realm Mental Energy and the Mind Control Secret Technique from One Thought.
• Yun Shu knocked the Dragon Bone back, surfaced, and began cultivating in an attempt to reach the Seventh Realm, while the Patriarch doubted he could do so before the pool closed.

Yun Shu used his Seventh-Realm Mental Energy and the Patriarch’s mind-control technique to subdue the Remnant Dragon in the Five Dragon Pool. He destroyed its remaining consciousness, stored the Dragon Bone, and left the Patriarch astonished by his abilities.

• Yun Shu remained in the Dragon Pool for a day while nearby demons mistook him for absorbing leftover Dragon Qi and mocked his apparent lack of aptitude.
• Yun Shu leaped back into the pool and used the Illusion Immortal Bead to search the surroundings.
• Yun Shu found the Remnant Dragon and restrained it with talisman seals formed from his Mental Energy.
• The Patriarch recognized Yun Shu’s Seventh-Realm Mental Energy and One Thought Mind Control, and marveled at his strength.
• Yun Shu took control of the Bone Dragon’s mind, erased its remaining consciousness, and put the Dragon Bone in a Storage Bag.

Yun Shu claimed a Bone Dragon and gathered Dragon Pool water before leaving the pool as the trapped Demon Race prodigies continued attacking the Illusion Realm. Little Jiu'er’s bloodline baptism remained unfinished as the three-day limit approached.

• The Patriarch praised Yun Shu for successfully using his Mental Energy technique to occupy the Bone Dragon’s consciousness, while Yun Shu gave up on the other Dragon Bones.
• Yun Shu collected more than half a Storage Bag of Dragon Pool water in jade bottles and then climbed out of the pool.
• Yun Shu watched Demon Race prodigies, including a second-level Spirit Transformation cultivator, fail to break through the Illusion Realm barrier.
• The Demon Race prodigies debated whether the barrier was a Formation Array or a powerful artifact, then pooled their strength to attack one spot.
• The Demon Race prodigies completed their bloodline baptisms, but Little Jiu’er remained inside his cocoon without moving as the three-day limit neared.

Little Jiu'er emerged from the cocoon as a Heavenly Demon Fox, stunning the gathered demons with her powerful bloodline. Yun Shu declined offers from the Demon Emperor Hall and Heavenly Demon Pavilion, then vanished, leaving the demons to speculate about his strength and why he had been gathering rocks and herbs.

• Little Jiu'er emerged in her nine-tailed fox form, revealing a Heavenly Demon bloodline and overwhelming the other demons with its pressure.
• Little Jiu'er transformed into human form and greeted Yun Shu, who saw that she had reached Transformation God Peak Stage.
• A member of the Demon Emperor Hall and the young Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Demon Pavilion invited Yun Shu and Little Jiu'er to join their factions, but Yun Shu refused.
• Yun Shu told the gathered demons that the Illusion Realm barrier would disappear in half an hour, then vanished using Instant Movement.
• The demons debated Yun Shu's strength and guessed that the rocks and spirit herbs he had collected held cultivation value.

Bai Qi and the other elders discovered that an Illusion Realm had concealed events in the Five Dragon Pool, where a young Heavenly Demon had undergone a bloodline baptism. Yun Shu returned safely to the Myriad Sword Pavilion with Little Jiu'er, while the demon factions began considering how to find and recruit the rare Heavenly Demon.

• Bai Qi realized the peaceful scene at the Five Dragon Pool was an Illusion Realm and waited anxiously for it to end.
• Bai Qi and the other elders entered the pool after the illusion shattered and confirmed the disciples were safe.
• The Heavenly Demon Pavilion's young Pavilion Master explained that a very young Heavenly Demon had undergone a bloodline baptism, and the elders suspected the person who had left early had concealed the truth.
• The elders discussed the Heavenly Demon's powerful bloodline and rarity, then sent word to their factions as they considered recruiting him.
• Yun Shu returned to the Myriad Sword Pavilion and released Little Jiu'er, whose standing in the sect continued to rise.

Yun Shu returned to his sect and absorbed the treasures from the Five Dragon Pool, gaining an enormous reserve of Attribute Points from a Dragon Bone. As powerful factions failed to divine his location, he planned to use his new resources to strengthen himself before the coming upheaval.

• Little Jiu'er joined the sect, while the Patriarch warned Yun Shu that powerful groups were trying to divine their location.
• The Heavenly Demon Hall Master failed to locate Yun Shu and chose not to investigate further, though he grew curious about the Illusion Array and Immortal Artifact shielding him.
• Yun Shu absorbed the Spirit Medicines and stones from the Five Dragon Pool, adding resources to his reserves and setting some aside for Liu Chuan and the sect.
• Yun Shu absorbed the Dragon Bone and discovered that it had granted him two million Attribute Points, bringing his total to three million.
• Yun Shu resolved to use his resources to improve his cultivation and abilities, prepare for the coming plot, and pursue valuable opportunities when he was strong enough.

Yun Shu consolidated his cultivation, reached the Eighth Realm, and learned that the Sword Emperor of the Imperial Sword Sect would be his opponent in the final God Transformation Tribulation. He continued preparing by strengthening his Immortal Path and Sword Intents.

• Yun Shu discussed the Dragon Bone Prohibitions with the Patriarch and learned that their power came from the bones' origin energy.
• Yun Shu continued cultivating and reached the Eighth Realm after half a month.
• Yun Shu realized his final God Transformation Tribulation would be the Fate Tribulation and resolved to prepare carefully.
• Yun Shu learned that his fated opponent was the Sword Emperor, a powerful elder of the Imperial Sword Sect and the Crimson Cloud Domain's former strongest cultivator.
• Yun Shu raised all nine of his Sword Intents to the Sixth Realm and kept them as his trump card.

Yun Shu tested his Sword Intents on the Sword Testing Stone and received powerful techniques, a Spirit Sword, and fragments of the Ten States Famous Sword. After discovering that each Sword Intent could earn rewards, he began testing his Five Elements Sword Intents.

• Yun Shu used his Sixth-stage Sword Intent on the Sword Testing Stone, which assessed him as Grade A-Plus and rewarded him with sword fragments and three cultivation techniques.
• The Patriarch explained that the stone’s rewards came from the Myriad Sword Pavilion’s heyday and that the Ten States Famous Sword Fragments had likely been added by the Snow Mountain Elder.
• Yun Shu tested his Seventh-grade Devouring Sword Intent and received the Ascension Immortal Art, Spiritual Sense Scripture, Sand River Body Refining Chapter, and Seventh Grade Spirit Sword Feather Break.
• The Patriarch expressed astonishment at Yun Shu’s Sword Intent and the rare Mental Energy technique he had obtained.
• Yun Shu realized he could keep earning rewards and tested all five of his Five Elements Sword Intents, leaving the Patriarch stunned by his talent.

Yun Shu tested the Sword Testing Stone, gained access to the Myriad Sword Pavilion’s vast legacy, and learned that an elder’s consciousness had survived inside it. He then arranged a private spar with the Sword Emperor, who accepted and named Green Peak Mountain as their meeting place.

• Yun Shu tested the Sword Testing Stone with his Sword Intents and collected the cultivation methods it revealed.
• Patriarch Ling Yi and the elder inside the stone discussed the elder’s surviving wisp of consciousness, and Yun Shu promised to preserve it when his Artifact Refining skills improved.
• The elder offered Yun Shu the treasures and knowledge stored in the stone, and Yun Shu took the cultivation methods while leaving the rest for later.
• Yun Shu asked Liu Chuan to send the Sword Emperor a discreet invitation to spar one month later.
• The Sword Emperor accepted Yun Shu’s invitation and chose Green Peak Mountain as the meeting place.

Yun Shu received the Imperial Sword Sect’s challenge and continued refining his cultivation before heading to Green Peak Mountain to meet Sword Emperor Zhou Daojue. The chapter left him on his way to their destined battle over the God Transformation Tribulation.

• The Sect Master and Sword Emperor Zhou Daojue agreed that Yun Shu’s strength was formidable and that their coming duel would decide Zhou Daojue’s tribulation.
• Liu Chuan received the Imperial Sword Sect’s reply while Yun Shu continued cultivating his body and Immortal Path techniques.
• Yun Shu studied the Sword Ancestor’s inheritances, including the complete Myriad Swords Return to Origin, and stabilized his cultivation during a month of seclusion.
• Yun Shu spoke with Mu Qing about cultivation, then learned from Liu Chuan that the duel would take place on Green Peak Mountain.
• Yun Shu set out alone to meet Sword Emperor Zhou Daojue, while Mu Qing learned who his opponent was.

Yun Shu met the Sword Emperor at Green Peak Mountain and defeated his single-strike challenge, reaching the peak of the fifth level of the Nascent Soul Stage. The Sword Emperor accepted Yun Shu’s advice about his Sword Path and left to reflect on it, while the Sect Master recognized Yun Shu’s standing as the strongest in the Crimson Cloud Domain.

• The Imperial Sword Sect’s Sect Master welcomed Yun Shu at Green Peak Mountain, where Yun Shu clarified that he had come only to spar with the Sword Emperor.
• The Sword Emperor attacked with his Imperial Sword, but Yun Shu’s Sixth-stage Sword Intent overwhelmed him, causing him to spit blood and fail his Tribulation Transcendence.
• Yun Shu advanced to the peak of the fifth level of the Nascent Soul Stage and advised the Sword Emperor that his sword was too focused on its tip and that his Sword Intent did not suit his Imperial Sword.
• The Sword Emperor thanked Yun Shu, admitted his defeat, and said he would study the insights from their battle before they met again at the Grand Competition.
• The Sect Master concluded that Yun Shu had secured his place as the strongest in the Crimson Cloud Domain, while the Sword Emperor said the Myriad Sword Pavilion might rise again under Yun Shu.

Yun Shu stayed on Green Peak Mountain to cultivate while Little Jiu'er prepared to undergo her tribulation, and rumors spread about the Sword Emperor's sudden seclusion. A month later, Little Jiu'er began her tribulation as Yun Shu watched from the summit.

• Yun Shu set up a Formation Array on Green Peak Mountain and settled into seclusion while Little Jiu'er explored nearby.
• Yun Shu asked the Patriarch to guide Little Jiu'er in controlling her Heavenly Demon strength and assimilating her improved bloodline.
• Yun Shu studied cultivation manuals and considered the risks and rewards of entering Desperate Lands to find resources.
• Cultivators speculated that the Sword Emperor had entered seclusion after a battle on Green Peak Mountain, though no one knew who his opponent had been.
• A month later, Little Jiu'er began her tribulation, and Yun Shu watched as lightning descended from the clouds.

Yun Shu watched Little Jiu'er safely complete his Lightning Tribulation, then reached the Void Returning Stage during seclusion. With powerful Divine Senses drawn to Green Peak Mountain and the Imperial Sword Sect's Grand Competition approaching, Yun Shu returned to the Myriad Sword Pavilion and asked Li Zheyan to summon several people.

• Little Jiu'er used his Heavenly Demon form to withstand all nine stages of his Lightning Tribulation without injury, then went off to play under the Patriarch's watch.
• Yun Shu secluded himself behind an Illusion Array, and three days later advanced to the Void Returning Stage.
• The Patriarch returned with Little Jiu'er, who said he had fought over a Crimson Ginseng Fruit and won, becoming the king of the children around the mountains.
• After Divine Senses investigated Green Peak Mountain and with the Grand Competition only months away, Yun Shu and Little Jiu'er set off for the Myriad Sword Pavilion.
• At Spirit Sword Peak's Training Ground, Yun Shu greeted Li Zheyan and asked him to call over three people and Du Yuan.

Yun Shu assessed four disciples and arranged sparring matches to gauge their strength and prepare them for the Grand Competition. The fights began, with the two Special Physique disciples evenly matched and Li Zheyan struggling against a Heavenly Spiritual Root disciple.

• Li Zheyan brought Yun Shu the three disciples chosen to represent the Myriad Sword Pavilion, and Yun Shu assessed their cultivation levels.
• Yun Shu paired the two disciples with Special Physiques against each other, assigned Li Zheyan to fight a Heavenly Spiritual Root disciple, and found Du Yuan a Golden Core opponent.
• Yun Shu praised the Special Physique disciples for anticipating each other's moves and told the Transmission Elders to have them live and eat together while he devised a Combined Attack Art.
• Li Zheyan struggled to withstand his opponent's attacks, realizing that the disciple's Heavenly Spiritual Root and Metal Attribute gave him a decisive advantage.

Yun Shu watched the sect’s disciples spar, impressed by Du Yuan’s Sword Body and rapid progress in Sword Intent. Du Yuan defeated a Golden Core senior brother, while Li Zheyan lost and the final duel between two Special Physique disciples ended in a draw.

• Yun Shu observed the platform fights and noted how Du Yuan’s Sword Intent training and sword legacies had advanced his abilities.
• Du Yuan nearly wounded his Golden Core opponent with a precise opening strike, then activated his Sword Body and unleashed Third Tier Sword Intent.
• Du Yuan overwhelmed the senior brother with a storm of sword strikes and forced him to concede.
• Li Zheyan was blasted from the neighboring platform after his opponent stopped holding back, though he remained uninjured.
• The two disciples on the first platform traded attacks with their Special Physiques and both fell, ending their match in a draw.
• The Transmission Elders praised the fighters and credited Yun Shu’s cultivation and investment for their progress.

Yun Shu equipped four promising cultivators and created an Illusion Realm to sharpen their combat skills before the contest. After their first difficult bouts, the group realized how much they could learn from the realm’s powerful opponents.

• Yun Shu assessed the cultivators’ strength, told them to prepare for the contest in four months, and promised a challenging Illusion Realm for training.
• Yun Shu gave Xia Jin and the black-clad youth a paired Sun Moon Wheel, while Pei Lin and Du Yuan received swords suited to their attributes and preferences.
• Three days later, Yun Shu finished the Illusion Realm, and Pei Lin entered first but quickly stumbled back out, shocked by how real and formidable his opponent had seemed.
• Pei Lin returned to fight again, while Jiang Qingyang, Xia Jin, and Du Yuan also tested the realm; all emerged battered, and Pei Lin admitted he had been defeated twice.
• Jiang Qingyang and Xia Jin praised the insights they gained from opponents’ Spirit Arts, while Yun Shu watched with satisfaction at the realm’s training value.

Yun Shu continued cultivating while preparing for the events expected in three months, then received birthday gifts from Yuan Xi and his father. He visited the Hall of Life and Death and shared his technique insights with Yuan Xi.

• Yun Shu advanced from the Early Void Returning Stage to the middle stage over a month while practicing many Spirit Arts and techniques.
• Yun Shu received birthday gifts from Yuan Xi, including Snow Illusion Spirit Grass, a sword, and longevity noodles, and his father also brought him noodles.
• Yun Shu shared one bowl of noodles with Liu Chuan and decided to visit the Hall of Life and Death and the Ancient Mine.
• Yun Shu appeared in Yuan Xi's study, saw that Yuan Xi had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and transmitted scenes demonstrating his insights into various techniques.

Yun Shu visited Yuan Xi, gave him a seventh-tier Ghost Dragon Dagger, and left him with tailored cultivation techniques as Yuan Xi continued managing the Hall of Life and Death. At the Ancient Mine, Yun Shu supplied Senior Brother Chen Hong with a light-attribute artifact and returned to the sect to focus on his own cultivation.

• Yun Shu offered to tailor cultivation techniques for Yuan Xi and gave him the seventh-tier Ghost Dragon Dagger after Yuan Xi reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Yuan Xi asked Yun Shu to stay for his birthday, but Yun Shu declined and left to check on the Ancient Mine.
• Yun Shu found Senior Brother Chen Hong guarding the Ancient Mine, where increasingly powerful Corpse Ghosts were emerging in large numbers.
• Yun Shu gave Senior Brother Chen Hong a seventh-tier light-attribute artifact, and Chen Hong handed over a Storage Bag filled with Blood Crystal Stones.
• Yun Shu returned to the sect, transmitted cultivation techniques to Yuan Xi, and resumed his own cultivation.

Yun Shu focused on cultivation and had his clone develop techniques for Yuan Xi and two disciples with Special Physiques. After three months in seclusion, he reached the Peak Void Returning Stage, while Senior Brother Chen Hong reported that the Ancient Mine's Corpse Ghost threat had been contained.

• Yun Shu finished a cultivation technique for Yuan Xi and sent it to him, keeping the relationship between Myriad Sword Pavilion and Hall of Life and Death discreet.
• Yun Shu's clone devised a Combined Attack Technique for two disciples with Special Physiques and added it to their cultivation systems.
• Three months later, Senior Brother Chen Hong returned and reported that the Corpse Ghosts in the Ancient Mine had dwindled and the Killing Intent would spread no farther.
• Yun Shu emerged from seclusion after advancing to the Peak Void Returning Stage and bringing his Body Cultivator realm to the mid-peak of the Eighth Realm.
• Yun Shu resolved to preserve techniques from any sects he might defeat in the future.

With the Grand Competition half a month away, Yun Shu arranged a final round of training for Jiang Qingyang, Xia Jin, Pei Lin, and Du Yuan. His clone defeated each of them while exposing flaws in their techniques, leaving the disciples determined to improve under the formidable Transmission Elder.

• Yun Shu assessed the four disciples’ cultivation and judged that their progress was strong, though they still needed more practice before the Grand Competition.
• Yun Shu ordered the disciples to take turns fighting his Nascent Soul Early Stage clone and give it everything they had.
• Jiang Qingyang attacked with his Profound Yin Physique, but the clone blocked him, criticized his scattered power, and struck him with his own technique.
• The clone defeated Jiang Qingyang, who accepted the criticism and promised to learn from the Transmission Elder.
• The clone then put Xia Jin, Pei Lin, and Du Yuan through the same demanding sparring, defeating each of them and revealing flaws in their technique execution.