Chapter Summaries

Jiang Cheng and his companions encountered Iron Blood Protector of the Soul Hall amid a Black Storm in the Black Corner Region. After Jiang Cheng revealed his identity as the Academy Confucian Sage, Iron Blood Protector recognized him and attacked.

• Jiang Cheng's War Boat entered the Black Corner Region and headed toward Black Emperor City.
• A Black Storm swept across the Black Region Great Plains, but Jiang Cheng shattered it with a wave of his Folding Fan.
• Zi Yan and the others spotted Iron Blood Protector capturing and draining the soul of a former Dou Zong Expert.
• Iron Blood Protector confronted Zi Yan, then sensed Jiang Cheng's overwhelming power as he approached.
• Jiang Cheng identified himself as the Academy Confucian Sage, and Iron Blood Protector recognized him from Hun Miesheng's order before attacking with his Iron Chain.

Jiang Cheng captured the Iron Blood Protector and questioned him about the Hall of Souls and its kill order. He left the Protector to the Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, which devoured him before returning to the war boat.

• The Iron Blood Protector tried to flee, but Jiang Cheng stopped him and forced him to answer questions.
• The Iron Blood Protector revealed that three Hall of Souls Dou Ancestors had come to the Northwest Continent and that Protector Tie and Protector Niu had gone to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• The Iron Blood Protector told Jiang Cheng that the Hall of Souls had issued a Blood Kill Order offering the Vice Hall Master position for Jiang Cheng's head.
• Jiang Cheng sealed the Iron Blood Protector's meridians and Dou Qi, then gave him to the Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to eat.
• The Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King devoured the Iron Blood Protector, then returned to the war boat, where Zi Yan told it to bathe.

Jiang Cheng, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan arrived in Black Emperor City to attend the Black Emperor Sect’s auction and secured entry to the Black Emperor Pavilion after Cai Lin revealed her Nine-Star Dou Ancestor strength. The system assigned Jiang Cheng a quest to auction for the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid, while Che Cheng moved to inform the sect master about their powerful guest.

• Jiang Cheng let the Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King stay behind to break through, then reached Black Emperor City with Cai Lin and Zi Yan.
• Jiang Cheng gave Cai Lin and Zi Yan black robes to conceal their identities as they entered the crowded city.
• Jiang Cheng’s group went to the Black Emperor Pavilion, where Che Cheng explained that entry tokens were reserved for experts above the Dou Ancestor realm.
• Cai Lin revealed her Nine-Star Dou Ancestor aura, and Che Cheng apologized and gave Jiang Cheng a special entry token.
• The system assigned Jiang Cheng a quest to auction for the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid in exchange for a Heaven Tier Weapon.
• Che Cheng watched the group enter and arranged for someone to notify the sect master about Cai Lin.

Jiang Cheng, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan arrived at the Black Emperor Pavilion ahead of the auction, where Cai Lin’s strength kept the crowd at bay. Mo Tianxing plotted to drug Cai Lin, but Che Cheng warned him that Jiang Cheng might be a Dou Venerate.

• Cai Lin’s pressure forced leering experts in the Black Emperor Pavilion’s hall to their knees, and Jiang Cheng led her away.
• Cai Lin complained about the crowd’s gazes and rested in a quiet room with Jiang Cheng and Zi Yan while they waited for the auction.
• Mo Tianxing came to the room, but Cai Lin refused him entry and a chopstick cut his cheek when he reached for the door.
• Jiang Cheng identified the visitor as Mo Tianxing, the Black Emperor Sect’s sect master.
• Mo Tianxing ordered Che Cheng to find a chance to make Cai Lin take medicinal powder, but Che Cheng warned that Jiang Cheng might be a Dou Venerate.

Jiang Cheng demonstrated his swordsmanship to Cai Lin with a strike that split the sky, then invited her to travel with him and build a future together. After they vanished, experts gathered to inspect the sword mark, and Han Feng suspected the Wine Sword Immortal had appeared.

• Mo Tianxing wondered whether Che Cheng's guests came from the Central Continent and ordered an investigation into their origins.
• Cai Lin asked Jiang Cheng how a scholar had gained such mastery of the sword, and he explained how travel and experience shaped his understanding.
• Jiang Cheng split the sky with a sword strike, stunned Cai Lin, and invited her to follow him and create a better future.
• Jiang Cheng and Cai Lin disappeared before experts from across the Black Corner Region arrived to examine the lingering sword mark.
• Su Qian suspected the strike belonged to Mister Confucian Sage, while Han Feng speculated that the Wine Sword Immortal had appeared.
• Mo Tianxing urged the gathered experts to leave or attend the Black Emperor Sect's upcoming auction, and Han Feng agreed to go.

After the Heaven and Earth Sword drew attention across the Northwest Continent, Jiang Cheng, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan attended the Black Emperor Sect’s auction in Black Emperor City. There, Young Sect Master Mo Ya offered them VIP treatment and invited Cai Lin to tour the city, but she bluntly rejected him.

• Mo Tianxing invited the gathered experts to a banquet, and First Elder Su Qian agreed that Jia Nan Academy would attend the auction three days later.
• Zi Yan complained that Jiang Cheng and Cai Lin had left her alone, then went to sleep as Jiang Cheng began cultivating.
• Three days later, Jiang Cheng, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan arrived at the Black Emperor Sect’s grand auction site in central Black Emperor City.
• Mo Ya introduced himself as the Black Emperor Sect’s Young Sect Master and apologized for the sect’s earlier neglect of the visitors.
• Mo Ya invited Cai Lin to tour Black Emperor City, but she called him trash, so he backed off and gave the group a VIP token.

Mo Ya and Mo Tianxing plotted to drug the auction’s guests after Cai Lin rejected Mo Ya, while Jiang Cheng discovered the poisoned tea prepared for his group. As Mo Tianxing opened the auction, Jiang Cheng waited for the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid and planned to settle the score with the Black Emperor Sect afterward.

• Cai Lin rejected Mo Ya’s private-room offer, and Mo Ya vowed revenge against her.
• Mo Tianxing backed Mo Ya’s plan to punish Cai Lin and gave him medicinal powder intended to incapacitate the auction guests.
• Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and Jiang Cheng were led to a private room, where Jiang Cheng stopped Zi Yan from drinking the tea and identified its weakening effect.
• Jiang Cheng said they would settle the score with the Black Emperor Sect after the auction and focused on obtaining the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid.
• Mo Tianxing appeared before the gathered auction crowd, introduced himself, and began addressing the guests.

Jiang Cheng and his companions uncovered Mo Ya’s attempt to poison them during the auction and captured him to use as a bargaining chip. As the auctioneer introduced a powerful mummified Magical Beast corpse, Zi Yan turned her attention to the unusual item.

• Mo Tianxing threatened the auction guests, and a Black Emperor Sect Elder began overseeing the bidding.
• Mo Ya brought pastries to Jiang Cheng’s room, but Jiang Cheng exposed the Nine Nether Bone Severing Powder hidden in them.
• Cai Lin struck Mo Ya, and he accidentally swallowed a poisoned pastry while trying to escape, leaving him unconscious.
• Zi Yan beat Mo Ya and, following Jiang Cheng’s suggestion, kept him as a bargaining chip.
• Zi Yan noticed a foul smell from the auction stage as the auctioneer described a mummified Magical Beast that had nearly reached the seventh order.

Jiang Cheng bid a high-grade Sixth-Grade Bone Tempering Muscle Refining Pill for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan corpse, shocking the auction hall with the pill’s power. The chapter ended with the crowd clamoring to buy it as Mo Tianxing recognized its value.

• Zi Yan reacted uneasily to the corpse, and Jiang Cheng explained the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s strength and its feud with the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• The Black Emperor Sect announced that it had not examined the corpse and would accept only an exchange of items, leaving the bidders hesitant.
• Jiang Cheng offered a high-grade Sixth-Grade Bone Tempering Muscle Refining Pill for the corpse.
• Jiang Cheng explained that the pill could temper a Dou Emperor’s bones and tendons to the level of a Dou Zong’s, stunning the crowd and prompting Mo Tianxing to rise.
• The bidders urged Jiang Cheng to sell them the pill or trade it to them instead.

At the Black Emperor Sect auction, Mo Tianxing reluctantly accepted Jiang Cheng’s Bone Tempering Muscle Refining Pill in exchange for the dried corpse of an Eighth-Order Magical Beast. Mo Tianxing then unveiled the coveted Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid, and the chapter ended as the auction crowd focused on it.

• The white-haired auctioneer tried to demand more for the dried corpse, but Zi Yan and the other bidders objected until Mo Tianxing agreed to accept the Bone Tempering Muscle Refining Pill.
• Mo Tianxing took Jiang Cheng’s pill and secretly planned to kill the bidders afterward and reclaim their belongings.
• Mo Tianxing put on Purple-Gold Gloves and introduced the auction’s final treasure.
• The Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid appeared in a Crystal Box, drawing the crowd’s eager attention.
• Mo Tianxing summoned Black Emperor Sect experts to surround and guard the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid.

Jiang Cheng exposed Mo Ya’s attempt to poison the auction guests and used Mo Tianxing’s son to bargain for the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid. Mo Tianxing tried to conceal the Black Emperor Sect’s wrongdoing, but Jiang Cheng threatened to kill Mo Ya and ruin the sect’s reputation, leaving Mo Tianxing demanding to know what he wanted.

• Mo Tianxing announced the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid as the auction’s grand finale and warned the crowd not to seize it by force.
• Jiang Cheng rejected the idea of taking the treasure by force and decided to use the captured Mo Ya as leverage; Zi Yan delivered Mo Ya’s Storage Ring to the auction platform.
• Mo Tianxing dismissed the treasures offered by other bidders until he recognized Mo Ya’s Storage Ring and saw his son lying in Jiang Cheng’s private room.
• Jiang Cheng accused Mo Ya of poisoning the pastries, and Mo Tianxing denied knowing about it while asking Jiang Cheng to release his son.
• Jiang Cheng warned Mo Tianxing that he could kill Mo Ya and expose the Black Emperor Sect’s actions, prompting Mo Tianxing to angrily demand what Jiang Cheng wanted.

Jiang Cheng forced Mo Tianxing to award him the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid and an Eighth-Order Magical Beast corpse in exchange for Mo Ya’s life. The deal ended with Mo Ya dead from Mo Tianxing’s poison, Mo Tianxing killed by Cai Lin, and Elder Yingshan defeated as Jiang Cheng and Cai Lin left.

• Mo Tianxing surrendered the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid to Jiang Cheng to save Mo Ya and announced Jiang Cheng as the auction’s winner.
• Mo Tianxing attacked Jiang Cheng, but Cai Lin blocked his strike and revealed she had reached the Half-Step Dou Venerate realm.
• Mo Tianxing discovered Mo Ya had died after eating pastries laced with Nine Nether Bone Severing Powder, and Jiang Cheng explained that Mo Tianxing’s poison had killed him.
• Cai Lin kicked Mo Tianxing through the glass and killed him, stunning the auction’s attendees.
• Elder Yingshan challenged Cai Lin, but she sent him crashing to the ground before she and Jiang Cheng left.

After Cai Lin killed Mo Tianxing, the Black Emperor Sect tried to demand justice, but Jia Nan Academy's Su Qian defended Jiang Cheng and his companions. Old Ghost Di Mo then slaughtered the sect and led its rivals in looting, while Zi Yan collected the leaders' Storage Rings and gave them to Jiang Cheng.

• The Black Emperor Sect's Che Cheng confronted Cai Lin and Jiang Cheng, but Su Qian arrived and warned the gathered factions not to attack his friend.
• Che Cheng continued demanding an explanation, so Queen Medusa killed him with a single finger.
• Su Qian explained that Mo Tianxing had tried to poison Jiang Cheng with Nine Nether Bone Severing Powder, which killed Mo Ya instead, and the assembled experts accepted his account.
• Old Ghost Di Mo killed the remaining Black Emperor Sect disciples and ordered the crowd to loot the sect's possessions.
• Zi Yan collected Mo Tianxing's and the elders' Storage Rings, rebuffed Old Ghost Di Mo's complaint, and handed the rings to Jiang Cheng.

After the Black Emperor Sect fell, Jiang Cheng returned to Jia Nan Academy and discussed his travels with Su Qian and the Thousand Hundred Elders. He decided to explore the continent and search for Heavenly Flames, whose locations he partly knew.

• Old Ghost Di Mo gave Jiang Cheng the Storage Rings and left to seize the Black Emperor Sect's remaining treasures.
• Experts descended on Black Emperor City, where they fought over the sect's wealth and killed its surviving members.
• Jiang Cheng returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Su Qian welcomed him and asked about the strike that had split the sky.
• Su Qian told Jiang Cheng that Mang Tianchi had been gone for a long time, and Jiang Cheng accepted that he would have to explore alone.
• The Thousand Hundred Elders met Jiang Cheng, who said he planned to travel the continent and search for Heavenly Flames.

Jiang Cheng compensated Old Man Huo for the medicinal materials Zi Yan and Cai Lin had taken, then left Jia Nan Academy with them for Peach Forest Mountain. Su Qian arranged for Old Man Huo to send pills to the mountain as a show of goodwill.

• Old Man Huo complained to Su Qian that Zi Yan had taken his herbs and two Sixth-Grade Pills.
• Jiang Cheng gave Old Man Huo an Eighth-Grade Six-Colored Pill Lightning Pill as compensation, and Old Man Huo gratefully accepted it.
• Jiang Cheng scolded Zi Yan for causing trouble and told Cai Lin not to take medicinal materials without permission.
• Jiang Cheng departed with Zi Yan and Cai Lin for Peach Forest Mountain after thanking Su Qian, Qian Mu, and Bai Lie.
• Su Qian told Old Man Huo to refine pills and find a chance to send some to Peach Forest Mountain.

On the War Boat returning to the Jia Ma Empire, Jiang Cheng gave Zi Yan an Eighth-Grade Pill and received the system’s Green Lotus Jade Sword reward. After returning to Peach Forest Mountain and distributing his spoils, he left alone for the Western Continent to continue traveling.

• Cai Lin persuaded Jiang Cheng to give Zi Yan an Eighth-Grade Three-Colored Pill Lightning Pill, which made Zi Yan rejoice.
• The system rewarded Jiang Cheng with the Heavenly Rank Green Lotus Jade Sword for completing the auction mission.
• After about half a month, Jiang Cheng and his group returned to Peach Forest Mountain, where he distributed his gains to Xiao Yi Xian and the others.
• Jiang Cheng told Yun Yun and the others that he planned to leave, and they urged him to return safely and soon.
• Jiang Cheng set off alone for the Western Continent with Peach Blossom Wine, his sword, and a mask made by Yun Yun.

Jiang Cheng visited the Blood Red Empire and heard about its rising young Dou Emperor geniuses, Daoist Lingyun and Xue Yang'er, as well as the powerful independent cultivator Du Chang'e. After leaving the tavern, he came upon the Wang Family residence draped in mourning streamers, where an Expert had died.

• Jiang Cheng arrived in the Blood Red Empire, entered its renowned tavern, and listened as patrons discussed Xue Yang'er's breakthrough to Dou Emperor.
• Daoist Lingyun entered the tavern, where patrons praised his strength as a Three-star Dou Emperor and his victory over three Five-star Dou Emperors.
• Du Chang'e arrived to drink, greeted Lingyun, and briefly found Jiang Cheng familiar before a friend called her away.
• Jiang Cheng left the tavern after Lingyun asked whether he had come about the Wang Family, and he denied it.
• Jiang Cheng heard a commotion at the Wang Family residence and saw white mourning streamers, indicating that one of its Experts had died.

Jiang Cheng attended Wang Yiling Xuan’s funeral, mourned the disciple he had never accepted, and investigated the suspicious circumstances of his death. After examining Wang Yitian Qiong’s memories, Jiang Cheng discovered that he had committed an inhuman act against his own son and struck him down.

• Jiang Cheng arrived at the Wang Family funeral and learned that Wang Yiling Xuan had died after a Seventh-order Magical Beast attacked him.
• Jiang Cheng placed a jade pendant beside Wang Yiling Xuan’s memorial tablet and declared him his disciple, then questioned how he had died.
• Daoist Lingyun told Jiang Cheng that Wang Yitian Qiong claimed to have killed the beast, but no one had seen its corpse.
• Jiang Cheng suspected Wang Yitian Qiong and examined his memories, uncovering what he had done to Wang Yiling Xuan.
• Jiang Cheng called Wang Yitian Qiong a bastard and slapped him, sending him flying and bleeding.

Three days earlier, Wang Yiling Xuan was betrayed and killed by his father, Wang Yitian Qiong, who coveted the Unfettered Sword and killed Xiao Die as well. In the present, Jiang Cheng brutally beat Wang Yitian Qiong and sent the surrounding Experts flying, leaving onlookers stunned by his strength.

• Wang Yiling Xuan told Xiao Die he wanted to find his Teacher, but Wang Yitian Qiong appeared and demanded to know where his sword came from.
• Wang Yitian Qiong attacked Wang Yiling Xuan and stabbed him while he was distracted, then killed Xiao Die when she ran to help.
• Wang Yitian Qiong took the Unfettered Sword and blamed his son's death on prejudice, while the Magical Beast cub vanished in a flash of light.
• Jiang Cheng dragged Wang Yitian Qiong back and repeatedly punched him, while the onlookers failed to stop him.
• Jiang Cheng swept his sleeve and sent the surrounding Experts, including Dou Ancestor Experts, crashing to the ground.

Jiang Cheng avenged Ling Xuan by burning Wang Yitian Qiong's soul to ashes, then left the Blood Red Empire to seek the Nine Nether Wind Flame. Grieving Ling Xuan's death, he destroyed the Unfettered Sword and fell asleep beneath a tree before waking at night.

• Jiang Cheng burned Wang Yitian Qiong's soul to ashes and spared the rest of the Wang Family after killing their head.
• Daoist Lingyun and the other Experts realized Jiang Cheng was likely a Dou Venerate and watched him leave.
• Jiang Cheng traveled away from the Blood Red Empire and consulted his map for the Nine Nether Wind Flame in the Endless Abyss.
• Jiang Cheng mourned Ling Xuan, blamed his death partly on the Unfettered Sword, and shattered the Earth-tier High-grade Weapon.
• Jiang Cheng drank from his Wine Gourd beneath a tree, fell asleep, and awoke after night had fallen.