Chapter Summaries

Shi Yue was pursued by Ma Yunfei and three Ma Family disciples, then lured them into the mountains to face them. He began a one-on-four fight, and the chapter ended as he transformed five Profound Fire Swords into a giant sword.

• After killing Du Jiangming, Shi Yue encountered Ma Yunfei, who falsely accused him of attacking a Ma Family disciple and urged the others to chase him.
• Shi Yue escaped on Black Phoenix and led the four Ma Family disciples into a mountain range.
• Shi Yue decided to fight the group, believing his improved cultivation and equipment gave him the advantage.
• Ma Yunwu sent two fourth-level Twin-tailed Flame Scorpions to attack Shi Yue while Ma Yunfei held back, hoping Ma Yunwu would wear Shi Yue down or die.
• Shi Yue dodged Ma Yunwu's Giant Fireballs and merged five Profound Fire Swords into a red giant sword.

Shi Yue rapidly killed Ma Yunwu and two Ma Family disciples, then fought Ma Yunfei with his artifacts and Black Phoenix. The battle continued as Ma Yunfei's black sand net intercepted Shi Yue's flying swords.

• Shi Yue used his red disc to break Ma Yunwu's defenses and kill him, causing the Twin-tailed Flame Scorpions to self-destruct.
• Shi Yue's red disc decapitated two Ma Family disciples, and Ma Yunfei fled while attacking with wheels, a green eagle, and a protective flag.
• Shi Yue summoned Black Phoenix and the Golden Luo Umbrella, then used his flying swords and Heaven Shaking Rod to pressure Ma Yunfei.
• Black Phoenix burned Ma Yunfei's green giant eagle to ashes while Shi Yue charged toward him.
• Ma Yunfei summoned a Black Gourd that sent out black sand, forming a net that caught Shi Yue's flying swords.

Shi Yue defeated Ma Yunfei after his sword was weakened by the black sand, then traveled to Hundred Spirit Valley to inquire about spirit grass at the Hundred Spirit Pavilion. The chapter left him showing Lin Haoran a jade slip and asking whether the shop had the listed spirit grasses.

• Ma Yunfei trapped Shi Yue's flying swords in a black net and attacked him with the Sun-Moon Wheel and a talisman.
• Shi Yue dodged Ma Yunfei's attacks, used his illusions and magic treasures, and killed him with a barrage of flying swords after breaking the Green Light Screen.
• Shi Yue collected Ma Yunfei's valuables, burned his corpse, and left on the Haoyue Flying Boat.
• Shi Yue arrived at Hundred Spirit Valley and went to the Hundred Spirit Pavilion to meet its shopkeeper, Lin Haoran.
• Shi Yue gave Lin Haoran a Green Jade Slip and asked whether the shop had the spirit grasses listed in it.

Shi Yue bought the Spirit Herbs he needed from Hundred Spirit Pavilion and learned that a five-hundred-year-old Bailin Flower would be auctioned in three days. He gathered materials for the Li Fire Sword and Azure Cloud Boat, then entered Palm Heaven Space to tend its expanded fields and begin refining.

• Lin Haoran told Shi Yue that Hundred Spirit Pavilion lacked five-hundred-year-old Bailin Flowers but that one would be auctioned in three days, and Shi Yue bought the other Spirit Herbs for three hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue accepted a VIP token from Lin Haoran and left Hundred Spirit Pavilion.
• Shi Yue bought materials for the Li Fire Sword and Azure Cloud Boat, spending over a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue entered Palm Heaven Space, packed the matured Spirit Herbs ordered by the Purple Flame Sect, and planted reserve herbs across its expanded fields.
• Xiaoyaozi advised Shi Yue to prepare his spirit beasts and spirit birds to advance, and Shi Yue said he would refine the Li Fire Sword and Azure Cloud Boat first.
• Shi Yue began refining the Li Fire Sword and Azure Cloud Boat in Palm Heaven Space.

Three demonic cultivators abandoned their failed operation in Great Tang and returned toward Northern Qi. Meanwhile, Li Feiyu returned to Taixu Sect and went to meet Zhou Tongtian about an important matter.

• The three demonic cultivators agreed that their plan to provoke the Great Tang Five Sects had failed and left Great Void Valley for Northern Qi.
• Ye Chen celebrated a minor breakthrough and joined a mountain patrol led by Uncle-Master Wang.
• Li Feiyu arrived at Taixu Sect on a red spirit bird, and Uncle-Master Wang confirmed his identity and warned the patrol disciples not to speak of seeing him.
• Li Feiyu landed at the Ancestral Master Hall, where Chen Yu recognized him and let him pass.
• Zhou Tongtian welcomed Li Feiyu, who bowed and said he had an important matter to discuss.

Li Feiyu returned to Taixu Sect and told Zhou Tongtian that five elite Devil Dao cultivators had escaped him, then prepared to attempt Core Formation. Murong Xiaoxiao gathered spirit herbs for Shi Yue and met Li Feiyu while making her rounds, leaving him to ask where she was going.

• Li Feiyu told Zhou Tongtian about encountering five elite Devil Dao cultivators, and Zhou Tongtian gave him a jade slip recording his Core Formation experience.
• Zhou Tongtian suspected Devil Dao cultivators might have been behind earlier unrest in Great Tang and planned to inform Martial Aunt Murong.
• Murong Xiaoxiao persuaded Martial Uncle Li to give her two four-hundred-year-old Purple Mist Flowers in exchange for a five-hundred-year-old flower a year later.
• Murong Xiaoxiao continued collecting spirit herbs for Shi Yue and flew away on her White Lotus Magic Tool.
• Li Feiyu met Murong Xiaoxiao while riding his Li Yan Sculpture, and she asked whether he would attempt Core Formation.

Li Feiyu returned to the sect and reported that elite Demonic Dao Cultivators had escaped him, prompting Murong Feng to order an investigation and patrols. Meanwhile, Shi Yue finished forging a set of Li Fire Swords in Palm Heaven Space, leaving him better equipped to face powerful Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

• Li Feiyu spoke with Murong Xiaoxiao about taming his Li Yan Sculpture, then flew away while Murong Xiaoxiao went to meet Shi Yue.
• Zhou Tongtian told Murong Feng that elite Demonic Dao Cultivators had come to Great Tang and escaped Li Feiyu; Murong Feng ordered warnings to the four sects and patrols of the markets.
• Murong Feng arranged for Li Feiyu to receive a Yuqing Pill and discussed Shi Yue’s travels and his resentment toward the sect with Zhou Tongtian.
• Zhou Tongtian reported that Immortal Herb Pavilion accepted orders for Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs; Murong Feng ordered Zhao to investigate and place a large order if the pavilion’s backing proved legitimate.
• Shi Yue spent seven days forging eighteen Mid-Grade Spirit Artifact Li Fire Swords, giving him the strength to contend with late-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

Shi Yue sold Spirit Honey and silkworm silk while searching for a Level Four Yao Beast Essence Soul, then met Song Meng, who asked him to help with a mysterious task. The chapter ended with Song Meng introducing Shi Yue to two Foundation Establishment Late Stage companions, one of whom doubted Shi Yue’s strength.

• Shi Yue went to Hundred Treasures Hall seeking a Level Four Yao Beast Essence Soul, but the shop had none available.
• Shi Yue encountered Song Meng, who invited him to discuss private business at Hundred Spirit Residence.
• Shopkeeper Lin Yu told Shi Yue that the shop had recently sold its Level Four Iron-Backed Ape Essence Soul, and Shi Yue sold his Spirit Honey and silkworm silk for eighty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue met Song Meng and his two companions in a private room, where Song Meng praised Shi Yue’s body-cultivation strength.
• A Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator named Zhao questioned whether Shi Yue could really match Song Meng’s strength.

Shi Yue negotiated a share of the treasures from Song Meng’s Ancient Cultivator’s Cave Mansion expedition and agreed to join the group. After Shi Yue left, Song Meng, Zhao Kun, and Lin Chen discussed the danger he posed, while Song Meng privately admitted he feared Shi Yue’s powerful backing.

• Song Meng invited Shi Yue to help break the cave mansion’s Four Symbols Vajra Shield and negotiated the division of its treasures with him.
• Shi Yue revealed that he was a Sword Body Dual Cultivator, and Song Meng agreed that Shi Yue could choose two items first or claim one of two magic treasures.
• Song Meng arranged for the group to meet in five days and asked them to keep the cave mansion’s location secret.
• Shi Yue rejected Xiaoyaozi’s suggestion that he kill his companions and steal the treasures, then left Hundred Spirits Residence after sharing cultivation insights with the others.
• Zhao Kun and Lin Chen worried that Shi Yue might turn on them, while Song Meng privately revealed that Shi Yue’s Nascent Soul Cultivator master made him too dangerous to oppose.

Li Feiyu spoke with Murong Xiaoxiao about Shi Yue’s strength and Murong’s upcoming training at Sanxin Market. At the Hundred Spirit Building auction, Shi Yue watched without bidding until Liu Dong revealed a heat-radiating red mineral that caught his attention.

• Li Feiyu asked Murong Xiaoxiao about Shi Yue and learned that Shi Yue had a Five Spirit Root, practiced Sword Body Dual Cultivation, and had established his Foundation.
• Murong Xiaoxiao told Li Feiyu she would soon return to Sanxin Market with Uncle-Master Zhao to train.
• Murong Xiaoxiao left, and Li Feiyu reflected on Shi Yue and Luofu Hai’s talents.
• Shi Yue attended the Hundred Spirit Building auction, where bidders bought defensive magic tools, a set of swords, and other items.
• Liu Dong presented a large red mineral that sharply raised the temperature, and Shi Yue’s interest stirred.

Shi Yue won a rare piece of Fire Tin Stone at auction and then bid on a damaged five-hundred-year-old Bailin Flower. The Bailin Flower auction was still underway when the chapter ended.

• Shi Yue outbid Master Li of the Hundred Treasures Studio, paying sixty thousand Spirit Stones for the Fire Tin Stone.
• Liu Dong introduced the auction’s five Finale Auction Items, beginning with a five-hundred-year-old Bailin Flower missing one petal.
• A Purple-robed Elder questioned the flower’s value, and Pockmark Li argued with him over whether it was worth waiting another hundred years.
• Shi Yue bid five thousand Spirit Stones for the Bailin Flower, then raised his offer to ten thousand after Pockmark Li bid seven thousand.

Shi Yue bought a Bailin Flower and watched the auction’s remaining finale items sell as he learned about the Sword Embryo. The final item, Blazing Sun Iron, caught his attention, but its auction had not yet begun.

• Shi Yue bought the damaged Bailin Flower for ten thousand Spirit Stones.
• A red-robed old man bought the soul of a Level Four Black Wind Tiger for forty thousand Spirit Stones.
• A graceful Red Skirt Young Woman bought the Fire Cloud Shield for forty-eight thousand Spirit Stones, and a richly dressed man bought the Green Hazy Saber for sixty thousand.
• Liu Dong revealed Blazing Sun Iron as the final auction item, and Shi Yue recognized it as material for forging a Sword Embryo.
• Shi Yue considered how a Sword Embryo could become a powerful flying sword, though nurturing one could hinder cultivation and make its destruction dangerous.

Shi Yue won the Blazing Sun Iron at auction and sold a Foundation Establishment Pill to cover the cost. The pill fetched seventy thousand Spirit Stones, leaving Shi Yue with the iron and a substantial profit after commission.

• Shi Yue bid against the red-robed old man from Hundred Treasures Studio and won the Blazing Sun Iron for eighty-five thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue brought out his remaining Foundation Establishment Pill and auctioned it, hoping to raise enough Spirit Stones to pay for the iron.
• The red-robed old man and a yellow-robed old man competed for the pill because their descendants needed it, with the red-robed old man ultimately bidding seventy thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue paid the auction organizers their five-percent commission, and Xiaoyaozi praised him for raising the bidding between the two old men.

After the auction, Shi Yue refined his Li Fire Swords and met Song Meng, Zhao Kun, and Lin Chen to prepare for a treasure-hunting trip. He revealed that four cultivators were following him and set out alone to confront them, while Murong Xiaoxiao received instructions from Murong Feng about dealing with Li Muxian and traveling safely.

• Shi Yue bought the Blazing Sun Iron at the auction, then entered Palm Heaven Space and refined the Fire Tin Stone into his eighteen Li Fire Swords.
• Murong Xiaoxiao told Murong Feng about Li Muxian and her plan to trade Spirit Herbs for thousand-year Ice Soul Flowers; Murong Feng approved cautiously and warned her not to travel alone.
• Shi Yue arrived late at Hundred Spirit Residence, where Song Meng, Zhao Kun, and Lin Chen were waiting to depart for their treasure hunt.
• Shi Yue told the group that four cultivators were following him and said he would handle them alone at Purple Bamboo Forest.
• Shi Yue left the market on his Haoyue Flying Boat, and the four pursuers followed him as the bearded Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator summoned a Black Gourd.

Shi Yue killed four cultivators who tried to rob him, then traveled with Song Meng, Zhao Kun, and Lin Chen to the location of an Ancient Cultivator's Cave Mansion. The group reached a desolate valley and found its entrance, with the cave still unexplored.

• The Bearded Man and three companions demanded Shi Yue surrender his valuables, so Shi Yue killed all four with his Li Fire Swords and took their possessions.
• Shi Yue met Song Meng, Zhao Kun, and Lin Chen at the Purple Bamboo Forest and urged Song Meng to lead them to the cave mansion.
• Song Meng flew with the group on his Ink Cloud Shuttle for two days and brought them to a shrub-covered valley in the mountains.
• Song Meng used a Spirit Child Mother Talisman to set a warning, and the group entered the valley after clearing its entrance.
• Shi Yue checked the area with his spiritual sense before following the others to a pitch-black cave at the end of the valley.

Song Meng led Shi Yue, Zhao Kun, and Lin Chen into an Ancient Cultivator's Cave Mansion, where they broke through a protective formation and divided its treasures. They left the valuable bell-type magic treasure unresolved because none of them could pay the proposed compensation.

• Song Meng used Silver Talismans to monitor the valley and led the others to the cave mansion.
• Song Meng revealed the Four Symbols Vajra Shield, and the four cultivators attacked it together until Shi Yue shattered it.
• Song Meng took the Storage Bag from a skeleton, revealing cultivation items and a bell-type magic treasure.
• Shi Yue chose Purple Gold Sand and a crystal containing a demonic bird's soul before the others selected their shares.
• The four divided the remaining treasures and Spirit Stones, leaving the bell untouched.
• Song Meng proposed that anyone who paid three hundred thousand Spirit Stones could claim the bell, and Shi Yue said he could not afford it.

After the group divided the treasures, Lin Chen and Zhao Kun used a Beast Soul Talisman to lure the others into a trap and activated the Seven Star Ice Soul Array against Shi Yue and Song Meng. Shi Yue realized they had obtained two sets of formations, but the chapter ended with him and Song Meng trapped in the array.

• Zhao Kun traded Spirit Stones, Spirit Tools, and Spirit Herbs for the cyan bell, while Shi Yue took his three Silver Gang Stones.
• Song Meng's Spirit Child Mother Talisman alerted the group that someone had triggered it outside the valley, and they rushed to investigate.
• Lin Chen and Zhao Kun fought a Crimson Yao Ape until it fled toward Shi Yue and Song Meng, who joined the fight.
• Shi Yue killed the ape with the Heaven Shaking Rod, and its body revealed itself to be a Beast Soul Talisman.
• Lin Chen and Zhao Kun activated the Seven Star Ice Soul Array, trapping Shi Yue and Song Meng in an icy world.
• Shi Yue learned that Lin Chen and Zhao Kun had obtained two sets of formations and asked whether there was another one.

Shi Yue and Song Meng fought Lin Chen, Zhao Kun, and Moonlight Fairy inside the Seven Star Ice Soul Array, then tried to break through the Thunder Cloud Heavenly Gang Array. The chapter ended with Shi Yue's Red Giant Sword striking the silver shield as thunderclouds gathered overhead.

• Moonlight Fairy revealed herself and joined Lin Chen and Zhao Kun in trapping Shi Yue and Song Meng in the Seven Star Ice Soul Array.
• Song Meng shielded them with the Black Short Ruler while Shi Yue used his Li Fire Swords to melt the ice rain and destroy the array's white wind dragon.
• Shi Yue unleashed the Hundred Sword Technique, dispersing the fog and revealing Lin Chen, Zhao Kun, and the Red Skirt Young Woman beside a silver shield and broken array disks.
• Lin Chen, Zhao Kun, and the Red Skirt Young Woman activated the Thunder Cloud Heavenly Gang Array as Song Meng struck the shield with his Black Copper Hammer and Shi Yue attacked it with hundreds of swords.
• Black clouds gathered above Shi Yue and Song Meng, and Shi Yue combined his swords into a Red Giant Sword and slammed it into the silver shield.

Shi Yue endured Lin Chen and his companions’ lightning attacks and destroyed their spirit artifacts while Song Meng was killed by the Silver Array. After Shi Yue unleashed his Red Giant Sword against the Silver Light Shield, Lin Chen fled as Shi Yue launched the Hundred Sword Technique.

• Shi Yue survived the silver lightning strikes, while Song Meng’s Black Light Screen failed and the array’s Lightning Spears killed him.
• Lin Chen, Zhao Kun, and the Red Skirt Young Woman attacked Shi Yue with more Lightning Spears and a lightning net, but he tore the net apart.
• Shi Yue blocked the group’s flying daggers, sabers, and swords with eighteen Li Fire Swords, reducing all eight spirit artifacts to scrap.
• Shi Yue’s flaming swords battered the Silver Light Shield, and Lin Chen and the others drained themselves trying to reinforce it.
• Lin Chen summoned a silver Lightning Python, but it exploded after swallowing Shi Yue; Lin Chen used a golden Talisman to flee as Shi Yue’s Red Giant Sword split into hundreds of swords and struck the shield.

Shi Yue killed Lin Chen after Lin Chen betrayed Song Meng, then hurried back to deliver goods to the Immortal Herb Pavilion. Meanwhile, Qin Shuang arrived at Sanxin Market with a Purple Flame Sect elder, who questioned the crowd gathered outside the pavilion.

• Shi Yue’s flying swords killed Zhao Kun and the Red Skirt Young Woman, and his Azure Cloud Boat caught up with Lin Chen.
• Shi Yue refused Lin Chen’s plea for mercy, killed him, and retrieved his Storage Bag.
• Shi Yue returned to Song Meng’s body, reflected on betrayal, and said Spirit Stones were the only thing that made him feel safe.
• Shi Yue looted the three corpses, burned them, and flew away to deliver goods for Qin Shuang of the Purple Flame Sect.
• Qin Shuang traveled to Sanxin Market with a middle-aged nun and other Purple Flame Sect disciples to reserve Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs.
• At the Immortal Herb Pavilion, the middle-aged nun saw more than a dozen Foundation Establishment Cultivators gathered outside and asked Qin Shuang what was happening.