Chapter Summaries

Li Qingqiu reached the Seven Peaks Alliance after traveling to Seven Peaks Town and following a woman in black into the mountains. After revealing that he was the alliance’s enemy, he infiltrated its grounds and made his way toward the First Alliance Master's courtyard.

• Li Qingqiu shared a carriage to Seven Peaks Town with a woman in black, who later offered to guide him to the Seven Peaks Alliance.
• When the woman in black threatened him with her sword, Li Qingqiu disarmed her and admitted he was an enemy of the Seven Peaks Alliance.
• Li Qingqiu climbed to the alliance's gate at night, killed one sleeping disciple, and forced another to guide him.
• Li Qingqiu knocked out the disciple outside the First Alliance Master's courtyard and approached the room with his sword.

Li Qingqiu killed Lü Taidou during a nighttime assault on the Seven Peaks Alliance, then escaped detection by disguising himself as a disciple. He rescued Yuan Qi and his little brother Yuan Li, whose rare Indestructible Hegemon Body Fate left Li Qingqiu stunned as they continued their escape.

• Li Qingqiu attacked Lü Taidou in his bedroom and killed him with three lightning-charged needles after blocking his fiery palm strike.
• Li Qingqiu woke Chen Ye and forced him to guide the way to the other alliance leaders, but the Invasion Horns sounded before they could proceed.
• Li Qingqiu knocked Chen Ye unconscious, took his clothes and sword, and moved through the alerted Seven Peaks Alliance disguised as a disciple.
• Li Qingqiu found Yuan Qi and his little brother hiding in a firewood room and offered to take them into his sect; Yuan Qi accepted.
• Li Qingqiu checked Yuan Li's Legacy System profile and discovered the one-year-old had Indestructible Hegemon Body, Master's Heart, and Tenacity.

Li Qingqiu fought his way out of the Seven Peaks Alliance while carrying Yuan Qi and Yuan Li, killing leader Xu Ziheng and defeating Guang Lantian. He escaped down the mountain as the Seven Peaks Alliance discovered its great leader was dead, and a message appeared offering him a legacy reward.

• Li Qingqiu prepared to break through the Seven Peaks Alliance’s gathered disciples while carrying Yuan Qi and Yuan Li.
• Xu Ziheng attacked Li Qingqiu, who wounded him with a single sword strike.
• Li Qingqiu fought through the crowd, kicked Guang Lantian away, and used the Heavenly Rainbow Sword to break the encirclement.
• A woman in black heard the Invasion Horn and headed down the mountain to avoid the trouble.
• The Seven Peaks Alliance discovered Xu Ziheng was dead, while Li Qingqiu fled down the mountain with the two children.
• A message told Li Qingqiu that killing an enemy sect leader and escaping had earned him a chance to receive a legacy reward.

Li Qingqiu returned to Qingxiao Sect with Yuan Qi and Yuan Li after killing Lü Taidou, while a woman in black learned of Lü Taidou’s death and wondered who had done it. The disciples welcomed Li Qingqiu home, and the chapter ended with them discussing how their sect differed from the one founded by Lin Xunfeng.

• A woman in black learned that Lü Taidou had been murdered and agreed to return with the gray-robed elder, asking him to investigate the killer’s identity.
• Li Qingqiu rested in the mountains, treated Yuan Li, and continued toward Qingxiao Sect with the two brothers.
• Li Qingqiu reached Qingxiao Sect and reunited with Li Sifeng, Jiang Zhaoxia, Yang Jueding, and the other disciples, introducing Yuan Qi and Yuan Li as new disciples.
• Li Qingqiu met the Qin family's six children, then gathered with the sect members for a meal.
• Li Dongyue recalled Lin Xunfeng bringing Li Sifeng and Li Sijin to the sect, and Yang Jueding and Zhang Yuchun said the present Qingxiao Sect was a new sect under Li Qingqiu.

Li Qingqiu inherited the Soul Seizing Curse and worked with Zhang Yuchun to expand Qingxiao Sect, assign disciples, and recruit a teacher. News arrived that Lü Taidou had died and the Seven Peaks Alliance was in chaos, while the newly arrived Zhang Yu impressed Li Qingqiu with grand claims and a request for higher pay.

• Li Qingqiu inherited the Soul Seizing Curse, learned its dangers, and chose to keep practicing the Spring Return Ghost Immortal Needle first.
• Li Qingqiu and Zhang Yuchun planned to build houses, recruit ten older disciples, hire a teacher, and restrict cultivation of the Primordial Scripture to True Disciples.
• Li Qingqiu formally took Qin Ye as his apprentice and sent him to train under Yang Jueding, who became Qingxiao Sect's Martial Arts Instructor Elder.
• Zhang Yuchun reported that Lü Taidou had died and the Seven Peaks Alliance was in chaos, prompting Li Qingqiu to warn the disciples to stay vigilant and keep training.
• Zhang Yuchun introduced Zhang Yu, who praised Li Qingqiu's fate, offered to teach the disciples, and asked for thirty more copper coins in monthly pay.

Li Qingqiu approved Zhang Yuchun’s plan to have Jiang Zhaoxia recruit a skilled fighter, then promised to take Yuan Li as his disciple once the boy was old enough to read. After waking to a commotion, Li Qingqiu learned that Xu Ning had caught the King of Thieves stealing food and wine from Qingxiao Sect.

• Li Qingqiu agreed to Zhang Yu’s higher teaching fee, and the disciples later praised Zhang Yu’s entertaining lessons and knowledge.
• Li Qingqiu approved Zhang Yuchun’s request for Jiang Zhaoxia to confront a skilled fighter in the Tai Kun Mountain Range.
• Li Qingqiu promised Yuan Qi that he would take Yuan Li as his disciple once the boy had grown up and could read.
• Li Qingqiu woke at night to find Xu Ning holding the bruised Cheng Canghai after catching him stealing a roast chicken and two jars of wine.
• Yang Jueding identified Cheng Canghai as the King of Thieves, scolded him for stealing from Qingxiao Sect, and heard Cheng Canghai claim Xu Ning was stronger than him.

After catching the Thief King Cheng Canghai, Li Qingqiu made him teach lightness skill at Qingxiao Sect, where his stories won over the disciples. Zhang Yuchun later brought the formidable Wu Baoyu to the sect, and Yang Jueding warned Li Qingqiu that the newcomer might have come for Qingxiao Sect’s grandmaster.

• Li Qingqiu sentenced Cheng Canghai to stay at Qingxiao Sect for a year and teach the disciples lightness skill instead of sending him to Black Stone County.
• Cheng Canghai told the disciples stories about his past over dinner and soon became popular, though he continued avoiding Xu Ning.
• Zhang Yuchun and Jiang Zhaoxia returned with Wu Baoyu, an expert who had defeated Jiang Zhaoxia before Jiang won their rematch.
• Wu Baoyu joined Qingxiao Sect, offered the disciples martial arts guidance, and earned their respect with his skill.
• Yang Jueding cautioned Li Qingqiu that Wu Baoyu might be targeting Qingxiao Sect or its grandmaster, while Li Qingqiu noted Wu Baoyu’s loyalty was above sixty.

Li Qingqiu let Yang Jueding choose to stay at Qingxiao Sect and continued building the sect while raising a young hawk with Origin Energy. When Black Stone County magistrate Feng Dai arrived to find Cheng Canghai, a confrontation with Wu Baoyu ended with Feng accusing him of being a notorious Demonic Sect enforcer.

• Li Qingqiu told Yang Jueding he was free to leave, but Yang decided to stay and help Qingxiao Sect grow across the Tai Kun Mountain Range.
• A month later, Li Qingqiu watched the disciples develop fields, a fishpond, and other resources while caring for a young hawk he hoped to raise into a demon pet.
• Li Sifeng warned Li Qingqiu that the county yamen was coming to search for Cheng Canghai, and Li Qingqiu told him to hide Cheng.
• Feng Dai introduced himself as the magistrate of Black Stone County and said he was pursuing the Thief King; Li Qingqiu offered to let his men search the sect.
• Feng Dai challenged Wu Baoyu and was badly injured, prompting his runners to demand that the sect answer for it.
• Li Qingqiu offered to treat Feng Dai, but Feng accused Wu Baoyu of being a notorious Demonic Sect enforcer who had deceived the sect.

Feng Dai accused Wu Baoyu of being a notorious Demonic Sect criminal, but Wu Baoyu claimed he was an Imperial spy who had avenged his family and exposed the emperor’s role in the Demonic Sect. After the Qingxiao Sect continued to grow, Li Qingqiu overheard Wu Baoyu offer to teach Qin Ye a staff technique and received a Legacy System reward notification.

• Feng Dai identified Wu Baoyu as the Qu Bei Guardian and accused him of massacres and stealing disaster-relief supplies.
• Wu Baoyu said he was Xiao Ji, the sole survivor of the Xiao family, and explained that he had infiltrated the Demonic Sect for the Imperial Court before the Crown Prince fell from power.
• Wu Baoyu revealed that the emperor had founded the Demonic Sect and used its crimes to conceal his pursuit of immortality, so Feng Dai left to investigate rather than arrest him.
• At dinner, Wu Baoyu said the emperor had slaughtered households to hide an evil art that required the blood of virgin boys and girls.
• After autumn passed, Wu Baoyu offered to teach Qin Ye a staff technique at midnight, and Li Qingqiu decided to watch over his second disciple.
• Li Qingqiu received a Legacy System notification granting him a legacy reward opportunity because someone in the Qingxiao Sect had created a spell.

Li Qingqiu celebrated Yang Jueding’s fusion of the Primordial Scripture and Nine Heavens Divine Palm, then secretly watched Wu Baoyu teach Qin Ye the Ten Thousand Army Demon Subduing Staff. Months later, Qin Ye learned that Wu Baoyu had died after attacking the Imperial Palace, leaving his fate and the staff art’s future uncertain.

• Yang Jueding demonstrated his strengthened Nine Heavens Divine Palm, and Li Qingqiu praised him and announced that the art would become a Qingxiao Sect inheritance.
• Li Qingqiu told Jiang Zhaoxia how Yang Jueding had adapted the Primordial Scripture, hoping it would inspire him to create a spell of his own.
• Wu Baoyu secretly began teaching Qin Ye the Ten Thousand Army Demon Subduing Staff, and Li Qingqiu watched without interfering.
• Seven days later, Wu Baoyu left the mountain, and Zhang Yuchun told Li Qingqiu that recruiting fifty disciples by year’s end seemed impossible.
• Two months later, Qin Jue visited with gifts and reported that Wu Baoyu had attacked the Imperial Palace and been killed by Heavenly Protection Guard experts.
• Qin Ye dropped his broom and stared at his father in shock upon hearing Wu Baoyu’s fate.

After Wu Baoyu died storming the Imperial Palace, Li Qingqiu comforted his grieving disciples and focused on strengthening the Qingxiao Sect, eventually breaking through to the Nourishing Yuan Realm Fourth Layer. The chapter ended with Feng Dai and nine constables kneeling before Li Qingqiu as Feng Dai confessed responsibility for Senior Xiao’s death.

• Qin Jue told Li Qingqiu and Zhang Yuchun that Wu Baoyu had died after attacking the Imperial Palace, and Qin Ye quietly mourned him while sweeping snow.
• Zhang Yuchun blamed himself for bringing Wu Baoyu to the Qingxiao Sect, but Li Qingqiu reassured him and urged the sect to grow stronger.
• Li Qingqiu declined Qin Jue’s offer to send more disciples, celebrated New Spring with the sect, and taught Qin Ye the first layer of the Primordial Scripture.
• Half a month later, Li Qingqiu broke through to the Nourishing Yuan Realm Fourth Layer, while Jiang Zhaoxia created the Sword Control Technique and taught it to him.
• Li Qingqiu helped Li Sijin work through difficulties with the Earth Talisman Treasure Codex and later found Feng Dai and nine constables waiting on the mountain.
• Feng Dai knelt before Li Qingqiu and confessed that he had caused Senior Xiao’s death, asking the sect leader to punish him.

Feng Dai resolved to uncover the truth about Wu Baoyu and clear Senior Xiao’s name, while the Qingxiao Sect continued to grow stronger. The chapter ended with Martial Champion Li Yang arriving to challenge the sect, and Li Qingqiu wondering whether Li Yang belonged to his lineage.

• Feng Dai reported that his investigation confirmed Xiao Ji had served the former Crown Prince and that records of the Imperial Guards’ mission into the Demonic Sect had disappeared, then vowed to reveal the truth despite the danger.
• The nine yamen runners followed Feng Dai as he set out to clear Senior Xiao’s name, while Xiao Ba watched them leave.
• Wu Man'er and Li Sifeng reached the second layer of the Yangyuan Realm, and Zhang Yuchun took Li Sifeng, Huang Shan, and Yu Lin down the mountain to recruit disciples.
• Wu Man'er and Yang Jueding sparred, demonstrating strength that impressed the Qingxiao Sect’s disciples and convinced Li Qingqiu they could face the Seven Peaks Alliance.
• Li Qingqiu stopped the sparring when he sensed a visitor, and Li Yang arrived at the mountain gate, declaring himself the Martial Champion and challenging the Qingxiao Sect’s foremost expert.
• Li Qingqiu sent Yang Jueding and Wu Man'er to receive Li Yang, then wondered whether the visitor shared his lineage.

Li Yang challenged the Qingxiao Sect and was decisively defeated by the fifteen-year-old Wu Man'er, whom he suspected was descended from the Lishan Wu Clan. After waking from his injuries, Li Yang learned that Wu Man'er was only fifteen and lamented that he had brought shame upon the name of Martial Champion.

• Li Yang and Zhao Linglong arrived at the Qingxiao Sect, where Li Yang challenged its disciples to spar.
• Yang Jueding sent Wu Man'er to face Li Yang, and Wu Man'er caught Li Yang's spear and hurled it back with overwhelming strength.
• Wu Man'er struck Li Yang with the Nine Heavens Divine Palm, blasting him into a room and leaving him badly injured.
• Li Dongyue treated Li Yang, and Yang Jueding hurried to check on him while Wu Man'er worried that he had hit too hard.
• After waking, Li Yang told Zhao Linglong he suspected Wu Man'er was a survivor of the Lishan Wu Clan connected to Lin Xunfeng.
• Li Sijin told Li Yang that Wu Man'er had just turned fifteen, and Li Yang lamented his defeat.

Li Qingqiu agreed to let Jiang Zhaoxia and Li Sifeng represent Qingxiao Sect at the once-in-a-decade Martial Arts Tournament, hoping the sect’s growth would help its disciples pursue immortality. As the pair set off, Li Yang joined them, while Li Qingqiu stayed behind to keep training and guide the sect.

• Zhang Yuchun returned with thirteen new disciples, who paid their respects to Li Qingqiu and joined Qingxiao Sect.
• Li Sifeng urged the sect to enter the Martial Arts Tournament, and Li Qingqiu approved Jiang Zhaoxia and Li Sifeng’s participation while warning them to avoid other sects’ grudges.
• Yang Jueding told the disciples about the tournament and the Demonic Sect’s Four Great Protectors, while Li Qingqiu reflected on the sect’s future and his pursuit of immortality.
• Five days later, Jiang Zhaoxia and Li Sifeng left for the tournament, and Li Yang persuaded Zhao Linglong to let him travel with them.
• Li Dongyue told Li Qingqiu that Li Yang had left three gold bars for repairing the mountain gate, and Li Qingqiu coaxed her into sparring with him.

Li Qingqiu learned that Li Sijin had grown a spirit plant and gained an opportunity to select a Fate as Qingxiao Sect earned renown. When Jiang Zhaoxia and Li Sifeng returned, Jiang was gravely wounded after a Heavenly Saber Sect ambush, and a woman in yellow revealed the coercion behind the attack before attempting suicide.

• Li Sijin showed Li Qingqiu a medicinal herb that had absorbed spiritual energy, confirming that spirit plants could be cultivated by the underground Spirit Lake.
• Li Qingqiu received an opportunity to select a Fate after Qingxiao Sect made its name in the martial world, and decided to save it for Yuan Li.
• Cheng Canghai taught the disciples lightness skills while Li Qingqiu supervised the sect's growing activities.
• Jiang Zhaoxia and Li Sifeng returned with Jiang gravely wounded, and Li Sifeng said the Heavenly Saber Sect had ambushed them in the Tai Kun Mountain Range.
• Li Sifeng explained that Jiang had defeated the Heavenly Saber Sect's master and many other experts, but the woman in yellow said Cheng had forced her to help the attackers by holding her younger brother hostage.
• The woman in yellow said Cheng had killed her younger brother and tried to dash into a pillar to end her life.

Li Qingqiu refused to save the woman in yellow after she poisoned Jiang Zhaoxia, then rallied the Qingxiao Sect to answer the Heavenly Saber Sect’s attack while letting Jiang Zhaoxia choose his own revenge. Meanwhile, Lu Fuhu learned that Li Yang had arrived to challenge the Heavenly Saber Sect.

• Li Qingqiu stopped Yang Jueding from intervening as the woman in yellow died, then explained why the Qingxiao Sect should not spare someone who had harmed them.
• Li Qingqiu treated Jiang Zhaoxia, and he and the disciples agreed the Heavenly Saber Sect would have to pay for its attack.
• Jiang Zhaoxia woke briefly and asked Li Qingqiu to let him take revenge himself, which Li Qingqiu accepted.
• Li Dongyue told Li Qingqiu she worried about the pressure he carried, and he reassured her before going to train.
• Lu Fuhu discussed his plot against the Qingxiao Sect with the woman in purple, then received word that Li Yang had arrived to challenge the sect.

Jiang Zhaoxia’s fame brought recruits and friendly visitors to the Qingxiao Sect, while Xu Ning broke through to the Yangyuan Realm Fourth Layer. The chapter ended as Jiang Kuotian encountered Qin Ye on the mountain and challenged him to spar.

• Zhang Yu taught the Qingxiao Sect disciples to recognize schemes by reviewing suspicious details in the dead bride’s attendant’s actions and recounting tales of ambushes.
• Jiang Zhaoxia’s reputation attracted sixteen recruits and a friendly visit from the White Crane Sect, while he vowed to take revenge on the Heavenly Saber Sect after reaching the Yangyuan Realm Fourth Layer.
• Li Qingqiu and Zhang Yuchun discussed ways to guide visitors to the sect and earn money, including building a mountain path, treating illnesses, and selling game.
• Xu Ning became the Qingxiao Sect’s second cultivator at the Yangyuan Realm Fourth Layer, and Li Qingqiu taught her the next layer of the Taiqing Primordial Scripture.
• Qin Ye practiced the Ten Thousand Army Demon Subduing Staff and secretly resolved to kill the dog emperor to avenge Wu Baoyu.
• Jiang Kuotian of the White Emperor Mansion met Qin Ye, recognized his staff technique, and challenged him to spar using one hand.

Li Qingqiu welcomed Jiang Kuotian to Qingxiao Sect and heard about famine-driven rebellions spreading across four provinces, while Jiang Kuotian insisted the unrest would soon be suppressed. As winter arrived, Jiang Zhaoxia reached the Nourishing Yuan Realm Fourth Layer and decided to train thirteen disciples as a sword unit to protect Qingxiao Sect.

• Li Qingqiu welcomed Jiang Kuotian, who praised Qin Ye after losing their spar and credited Qin Ye’s skill to instruction from a peerless expert.
• Jiang Kuotian told Li Qingqiu that rebels were exploiting famine across four provinces, and he warned Zhang Yuchun not to join the campaign against them.
• Jiang Kuotian shared martial-world news, then stayed at Qingxiao Sect for two more days before descending the mountain five days after his arrival.
• Jiang Zhaoxia broke through to the Nourishing Yuan Realm Fourth Layer and demonstrated his powerful sword intent to Li Qingqiu.
• Jiang Zhaoxia proposed personally training thirteen disciples as the Qingxiao Thirteen Sword Arts to eliminate threats to Qingxiao Sect.

Li Qingqiu expanded Qingxiao Sect’s training and services while guiding Qin Ye away from revenge and advancing to the Nourishing Yuan Realm Fifth Layer. The chapter ended as a merchant brought his mysteriously ill daughter to Li Dongyue’s new medical practice.

• Li Qingqiu had Jiang Zhaoxia choose the final member of the Thirteen Swords, Xue Jin, and decided Li Dongyue and Li Sijin should also lead groups of disciples.
• Li Dongyue selected nine disciples, while Zhang Yuchun returned from recruiting with twenty-three new disciples, including the lucky Bai Ninger.
• Li Qingqiu challenged Qin Ye’s desire to avenge Wu Baoyu and explained that Qingxiao Sect should protect those who supported it, prompting Qin Ye to reconsider his hatred.
• Jiang Zhaoxia taught the Thirteen Swords to put Qingxiao Sect’s interests first as the disciples trained through the winter.
• Li Qingqiu secretly broke through to the Nourishing Yuan Realm Fifth Layer and resolved to stay out of the spotlight.
• Li Dongyue opened her medical practice, and a merchant brought his daughter to seek treatment for her strange illness.

Li Qingqiu welcomed the wealthy merchant Liu Fanzhou after Li Dongyue cured his daughter, and Liu Yan later joined the Qingxiao Sect as Li Dongyue’s disciple. Li Qingqiu mastered the Flying Fish Blade and, by spring, Liu Fanzhou returned with workers to build a road up the mountain.

• Li Dongyue cured Liu Fanzhou’s daughter with the Spring Return Ghost Immortal Needle, and Liu Fanzhou told Li Qingqiu about an official whose residence was haunted by nightly deaths among animals.
• Liu Yan insisted on joining Li Dongyue, and Li Qingqiu accepted her despite her mediocre aptitude and lack of special Fate.
• Li Qingqiu broke the restriction on the Flying Fish Blade, claimed it as his own, and tested its control and range in the woods.
• Li Qingqiu spotted Xue Jin secretly practicing an unfamiliar sword style but left without confronting him.
• A month later, Liu Fanzhou returned with more than a hundred workers to build a road to Qingxiao Sect, while promising to recommend the sect to people seeking treatment.