Chapter Summaries

After Qingxiao Sect survived the attack by the Mo Sect Seven Sha, Li Qingqiu collected two new inheritance rewards and received Yan Lan’s offer of support. Yan Lan arranged to send his talented son to the sect and leave Ku Yi and Ku Er there, while Jiang Zhaoxia and the others returned with the auspicious treasure.

• Su Xiling told Zhu Yan about Li Qingqiu’s extraordinary battle, while Yan Lan decided to remain on the mountain until he could bid Li Qingqiu farewell.
• Li Qingqiu received the Foundational Text on Formations and the Mountain Lord Divine Incantation, then considered how to develop Qingxiao Sect and train its disciples.
• Yan Lan thanked Li Qingqiu for protecting him and offered to secure the new Prefect’s support for Qingxiao Sect.
• Yan Lan asked Li Qingqiu to accept his son as a disciple and leave Ku Yi and Ku Er at the sect, and Li Qingqiu agreed.
• Jiang Zhaoxia and the others returned with Li Sifeng’s group, and Li Qingqiu went out to welcome them and see the auspicious treasure.

After Jiang Zhaoxia and the others returned from destroying the Azure Cult, Li Qingqiu welcomed the Hell Kirin to Qingxiao Mountain and led trusted disciples to claim a Spirit Stone mine. The Qingxiao Sect’s growing fame spread through Guzhou as a major upheaval loomed, while a black-clad woman was warned against pursuing the Martial Arts Myth’s legacy.

• Jiang Zhaoxia reported that he and his companions had destroyed the Azure Cult’s headquarters and all five branch halls, and Li Qingqiu welcomed them with plans for a sect-wide feast.
• Li Sifeng revealed that Bai Ninger had found and helped a wounded Kirin, which he named Hell Kirin, and Li Qingqiu told him to care for it on Qingxiao Mountain.
• The Qingxiao Sect’s celebrations and reputation drew more common folk, pilgrims, and martial artists to the mountain.
• Li Qingqiu brought Jiang Zhaoxia, Li Sifeng, and Bai Ninger to a Spirit Stone mine and planned to establish an outpost there with Jiang Zhaoxia guarding it.
• At an inn, martial artists praised the Qingxiao Sect’s victories and Jiang Zhaoxia’s destruction of the Azure Cult, while an old man advised a black-clad woman to abandon her search for the Martial Arts Myth’s martial arts.

Chai Yunshang sought a divine art to escape her family’s plans for her, while Qingxiao Sect grew in fame and began expanding its resources and influence. The chapter ended with Li Qingqiu welcoming Zhao Zhen as a disciple and discovering the boy’s exceptional True Martial Body.

• Chai Yunshang asked Gu Dubao to help her obtain a divine art so she could resist her family’s arranged marriage plans.
• Li Qingqiu and Zhang Yuchun discussed recruiting disciples, building a town at the mountain’s foot, and putting Qingxiao Sect’s spirit mine to use.
• Zhang Yuchun told Li Qingqiu that the Chai Family of Jiangzhou wanted to arrange a marriage alliance with him, but Li Qingqiu refused marriage.
• Ma Yu delivered Feng Dai’s letter from the imperial capital and hurried back to protect Feng Dai.
• Li Sijin told Li Qingqiu she had made a talisman, but Qin Ye interrupted them to announce Ku Yi and Ku Er’s arrival with a child.
• Zhao Zhen became Li Qingqiu’s disciple, and Li Qingqiu’s Legacy System revealed his exceptional aptitude and True Martial Body.

Li Qingqiu accepted Zhao Zhen as his disciple and brought him into Qingxiao Sect, while Li Sijin demonstrated the powerful Spirit Eagle Talisman she had created. Zhao Zhen quickly learned the Great Sun Yang Gong and showed such extraordinary martial talent that Yang Jueding called him a demon child reincarnated.

• Li Qingqiu decided Zhao Zhen was worth the risk, accepted him as his disciple, and invited Ku Yi and Ku Er to stay at Qingxiao Sect.
• Li Qingqiu took Zhao Zhen to meet Li Sijin, who demonstrated her Spirit Eagle Talisman and agreed to record its method for the Scripture Pavilion.
• Five days later, Li Qingqiu taught Zhao Zhen the Great Sun Yang Gong, and Zhao Zhen memorized it and developed its Internal Energy that same day.
• Zhao Zhen accompanied Li Qingqiu and Yuan Li around the sect and improved rapidly in martial arts.
• Yang Jueding tested Zhao Zhen and was astonished by his talent, calling him a demon child reincarnated.

The Qingxiao Sect continued to expand as Li Qingqiu cultivated new disciples and prepared the sect for its growing influence. When the White Emperor Mansion named Qingxiao one of Guzhou’s seven great sects and invited it to a gathering about the Demonic Sect’s return, Li Qingqiu agreed to send Xu Ning with the Heavenly Rainbow Sword and Yang Jueding.

• Zhao Zhen sparred with Yang Jueding, and Li Qingqiu encouraged Yang to train the five-year-old without holding back.
• Chai Yunshang and Gu Dubao arrived at Qingxiao Mountain and remarked on how much the Qingxiao Sect had grown.
• Zhang Yuchun discussed sect rules and sending disciples down the mountain with Li Qingqiu, who named three talented disciples for him to nurture.
• Xu Ning reached the sixth layer of the Nurturing Origin Realm, while Yang Jueding reported that the White Emperor Mansion had recognized Qingxiao as one of Guzhou’s seven great sects.
• Yang Jueding said the gathering would address the Demonic Sect’s impending return and volunteered to attend; Li Qingqiu agreed to send Xu Ning with his Heavenly Rainbow Sword.

Li Yang began considering a return to the Qingxiao Sect’s life after Zhao Linglong described its changes, while Feng Dai learned that the emperor’s palace was hiding deaths and that the Heavenly Protection Guard had been placed under the Forbidden Martial Division. As Li Qingqiu traveled down the mountain with Yuan Li and Zhao Zhen, an unseen group ambushed them, claiming he might have received Qingxiao True Person’s true inheritance.

• Zhao Linglong told Li Yang about the Qingxiao Sect’s new five-year-old prodigy, its Sword Control Technique, Zhu Yan, and Qin Ye’s winning streak, prompting Li Yang to consider exploring the sect.
• Jia Yi told Feng Dai that martial arts leaders who entered the palace had disappeared, Heavenly Protection Guards had disposed of corpses, and the Forbidden Martial Division now commanded the guard under the formidable Xuan Gong.
• Li Qingqiu passed the Martial Arts Stage, where Chai Yunshang was sparring with Liu Yan, and Chai Yunshang recognized him as the young man who had killed Lü Taidou.
• Gu Dubao followed Li Qingqiu down the mountain, hoping to persuade him to accept Chai Yunshang as a disciple in exchange for a secret manual.
• Li Qingqiu stopped with Yuan Li and Zhao Zhen and said he would teach them how to deal with bad people, as a hidden voice announced that the Qingxiao Sect master might have inherited Qingxiao True Person’s true legacy.

Li Qingqiu killed three Mo Sect experts who attacked him and the children, then accepted Gu Dubao’s Divine Dragon Transformation manual and gave it to Zhao Zhen. After a grueling month of cultivation, Li Qingqiu reached the Yangyuan Realm Seventh Layer, while Zhao Zhen announced he had mastered the technique.

• Three Mo Sect experts attacked Li Qingqiu, Yuan Li, and Zhao Zhen, but Li Qingqiu killed them with silver needles and retrieved the Cold Abyss Blade.
• Gu Dubao identified Xu Polu and the Cold Abyss Blade, then offered Li Qingqiu the Divine Dragon Transformation manual in exchange for Chai Yunshang joining Qingxiao Sect.
• Gu Dubao returned to Chai Yunshang and told her Li Qingqiu would accept her as a disciple, while Li Qingqiu took Yuan Li and Zhao Zhen to cultivate.
• Li Qingqiu gave the Divine Dragon Transformation manual to Zhao Zhen, kept the Mo Sect attack from disrupting the sect, and cultivated until he reached the Yangyuan Realm Seventh Layer.
• Zhao Zhen told Li Qingqiu that he had mastered the Divine Dragon Transformation.

Li Qingqiu watched Zhao Zhen demonstrate his mastery of the Divine Dragon Transformation, then accepted Chai Yunshang as an ordinary disciple after she declined to become his True Disciple. He discovered Chai Yunshang had two special fates and, ten days later, investigated Jiang Zhaoxia’s report of an unidentified presence near the Spirit Mine.

• Zhao Zhen performed the Divine Dragon Transformation, rose into the air surrounded by a dragon-shaped aura, and left Gu Dubao stunned and kneeling.
• Chai Yunshang asked to join the Qingxiao Sect as an ordinary disciple, and Li Qingqiu approved her registration with Zhang Yuchun.
• Li Qingqiu viewed Chai Yunshang’s Legacy System panel and found her Fated Life of Severed Affection and Gifted in Administering Punishment, deciding to prioritize her cultivation.
• Ten days later, Li Qingqiu visited the Spirit Mine and saw Jiang Zhaoxia had reached the Nourishing Yuan Realm Sixth Layer.
• Jiang Zhaoxia told Li Qingqiu that an unidentified presence had appeared outside the Spirit Mine for about six days, and Li Qingqiu decided to stay there overnight and investigate.

Li Qingqiu found and subdued Lin Chuan, the ghost of his master Lin Xunfeng’s son, and learned how the Demonic Sect had tortured him. After Qingxiao Sect was recognized as one of Guzhou’s five great sects, Yang Jueding returned from the White Emperor Mansion and began to explain what had happened there.

• Li Qingqiu searched the spirit mine at night and found a vicious little ghost by a stream.
• Li Qingqiu used the Soul Seizing Curse to tame the ghost and discovered he was Lin Chuan, Lin Xunfeng’s son, who had died after being tortured by the Demonic Sect.
• Li Qingqiu brought Lin Chuan back to Qingxiao Mountain, treated him as a junior brother, and agreed to teach him martial arts and cultivation.
• Li Qingqiu received an inheritance reward after Qingxiao Sect entered the ranks of Guzhou’s five great sects.
• Half a month later, Yang Jueding, Xu Ning, and the five disciples returned safely from the White Emperor Mansion.
• Yang Jueding told the gathered disciples that the prefectural government had declared Qingxiao Sect one of the new five great sects and a righteous sect recognized by the Imperial Court.

Xu Ning returned from the White Emperor Mansion after killing the leaders of two sects, while the Demonic Sect slaughtered both sects and threatened Guzhou’s remaining great sects. As Qingxiao Sect expanded and organized its halls, the Demonic Sect invaded the prefectural capital, killed the Prefect, and sealed the city.

• Yang Jueding told the Qingxiao Sect leaders that Xu Ning killed Guang Lantian and Du Mian, after which the Demonic Sect massacred the Seven Peaks Alliance and Iron Peak Sect.
• Li Qingqiu gave Xu Ning the lightning-attribute spell Heavenly Thunder Steps and listened as she recounted her journey and battles.
• As the Qingxiao Sect grew to more than three hundred disciples, Li Qingqiu established the Enforcement Hall under Xu Ning and the Spirit Control Hall under Zhang Yuchun.
• Li Qingqiu set Yangyuan Realm Second Layer as the requirement for becoming a True Disciple, after Zhang Yuchun reported that forty-six disciples had reached Yangyuan Realm.
• Liu Fanzhou warned Li Qingqiu and Zhang Yuchun that the Demonic Sect had invaded the prefectural capital, killed the Prefect, and trapped everyone inside the sealed city.

After the Demonic Sect seized Guzhou’s provincial capital, it slaughtered prisoners, terrorized the region, and demanded every martial sect attend its gathering. Following the Heavenly Saber Sect’s defeat and growing pressure from his disciples, Li Qingqiu ordered the entire Qingxiao Sect to descend the mountain and uphold Heaven’s justice.

• Li Qingqiu suspected the Demonic Sect had seized the provincial capital to draw the Qingxiao Sect into a confrontation, and he waited for intelligence from Liu Fanzhou.
• The Demon Emperor ordered hundreds of bound soldiers executed, then commanded the Demonic Sect to summon every Guzhou martial sect to the provincial capital within two months.
• Su Xiling and Zhao Linglong told Zhu Yan and Li Yang about the Demonic Sect’s atrocities and the Imperial Court’s silence, while Li Yang questioned whom he was fighting for.
• Qin Ye reported that the Heavenly Saber Sect had attacked the provincial capital and been wiped out, and Qingxiao Sect disciples grew angry and eager to fight.
• After Cheng Canghai returned, Li Qingqiu summoned the Qingxiao Sect to Profound Heart Hall and ordered the entire sect to descend the mountain and uphold Heaven’s justice.

Jiang Kuotian watched as Xuandang and Chanding Temple forces attacked the Demonic Sect in the ruined prefectural seat, briefly renewing the prisoners’ hope of rescue. The Demon Emperor prepared to face a large prefectural army while Wu Dingbei defeated Daoist Master Changming and offered to spare Xuandang’s disciples in return for surrender.

• Jiang Kuotian was marched from prison through the devastated streets of the prefectural seat with other prisoners.
• Daoist Master Changming led Xuandang’s forces into the city to rescue the prisoners, but Wu Dingbei intercepted him and their fight held back the attackers.
• Divine Monk Taihang arrived with Chanding Temple and used a bell strike to badly injure Demonic Sect martial artists.
• Daoist Master Wei told the Demon Emperor that Xuandang and Chanding Temple had arrived, and the Demon Emperor ordered General Bai to meet the approaching hundred thousand soldiers from Dongling Prefecture.
• Wu Dingbei defeated Daoist Master Changming, revealed that he was repaying a life-saving favor, and offered to spare some Xuandang disciples if Changming surrendered.

Xu Hong fought through the Demonic Sect’s guards to lead the prisoners toward Xuandang’s city gate, where he was badly wounded by a bamboo-hatted swordsman. Jiang Zhaoxia arrived to help, and another fighter rushed in from the gate passage as the chapter ended.

• Daoist Master Changming renewed his fight with Wu Dingbei while Divine Monk Taihang and the Chanding Temple monks battled Demonic Sect warriors elsewhere in the city.
• Jiang Kuotian and the other prisoners heard battle cries and horns, then Xu Hong rescued them from their Demonic Sect escort and fought to lead them toward the city gate.
• Xu Hong defeated more than two hundred Demonic Sect warriors before two saber-wielding men blocked the prisoners’ path and one gravely wounded him.
• Yang Jueding learned that Zhao Zhen had turned into a dragon and hurried to investigate.
• Jiang Zhaoxia appeared atop the city wall and blocked the bamboo-hatted man, then a sword shot through the gate passage and forced the man back as an unknown figure charged toward him.

Xu Ning and the Qingxiao Sect entered the besieged prefectural city to fight the Demonic Sect and rescue its captives. After Jiang Zhaoxia killed forty-three enemies with one sword, the Demon Emperor appeared with a host of fighters.

• Xu Ning killed the man in the bamboo hat and nine other Demonic Sect martial artists, then charged into the city as Jiang Zhaoxia and the Thirteen Sword Guards arrived.
• Jiang Zhaoxia told Jiang Kuotian that their Eldest Senior Brother had sent them to help, while Li Dongyue treated Xu Hong and ordered him to leave the city.
• All 293 Qingxiao Sect members entered the city in formation, and Jiang Kuotian turned back after recalling Lin Xunfeng's hopes for the sect.
• Xu Ning advanced through the city with Cheng Canghai, who warned her that more Demonic Sect experts lay ahead and that he had scouted their forces and the civilians' location.
• Jiang Zhaoxia took over the fight and slew forty-three Demonic Sect experts with a single sword strike.
• The Demon Emperor praised the Qingxiao Sect as fighters emerged from courtyards around the group.

Li Qingqiu arrived at the besieged Qingxiao Sect on Xiao Ba and defeated the Demon Emperor with a single palm strike. After the Demon Emperor died, Li Qingqiu captured the black fox spirit inside him and realized the threat behind the city’s turmoil remained.

• The Qingxiao Sect disciples were surrounded by more than two thousand Demonic Sect fighters, and the Demon Emperor displayed the battered Divine Monk Taihang before demanding that the Qingxiao Sect Master face him.
• Li Qingqiu descended on Xiao Ba, and the Demon Emperor revealed that he had killed Lin Chuan and mocked Lin Xunfeng for seeking immortals.
• The Demon Emperor attacked Li Qingqiu with the Great Sun Yang Gong, but Li Qingqiu struck him down and sent him crashing into the street.
• The Demonic Sect fighters charged, and Jiang Zhaoxia, Xu Ning, Li Yang, Zhao Linglong, and the other Qingxiao Sect disciples joined the battle as Xiao Ba attacked the enemy.
• Li Qingqiu identified himself to the dying Demon Emperor, who warned that the imperial court was the true enemy, then died.
• Lin Chuan pinned the black fox spirit that emerged from the Demon Emperor’s corpse, and Li Qingqiu concluded that the city’s turmoil had not been resolved.

Li Qingqiu led the Qingxiao Sect through the provincial capital, defeating Demonic Sect forces and rescuing survivors while searching for the sect’s hidden operations. In an underground chamber, he found children dead in vats of medicinal liquid and rescued a surviving youth, who agreed to join the Qingxiao Sect.

• Lin Chuan devoured the restrained black fox soul as the Qingxiao Sect disciples routed the Demonic Sect martial artists in the street.
• Li Qingqiu stabilized Divine Monk Taihang’s injuries, then urged the disciples onward to continue their mission.
• Cheng Canghai led the Qingxiao Sect to a large residence where the Demonic Sect had taken commoners’ children, and Li Qingqiu ordered the disciples to wait together while he investigated.
• Lin Chuan guided Li Qingqiu through a concealed passage to an underground chamber filled with vats holding dead children.
• Li Qingqiu lifted a surviving youth from a vat, learned that his family had been killed, and offered him a home in the Qingxiao Sect; the youth accepted.

Li Qingqiu rescued survivors from hidden underground chambers in Guzhou and led them toward the city gate, where Daoist Master Wei used thunder to terrorize the crowd. Li Qingqiu walked through repeated lightning strikes unharmed, leaving Daoist Master Wei panicking as the townsfolk watched.

• Li Qingqiu discovered Ji Ya’s Hundred Refinements Demonic Body, restored his strength, and rescued him and five other children from water jars.
• Li Qingqiu and the Qingxiao Sect disciples searched hidden passages with Lin Chuan’s help, rescuing many wounded commoners and discussing the tunnels’ possible connection to the emperor’s earlier plans.
• As evening fell, Li Qingqiu stopped the growing crowd near the city gate and decided they would leave the city before searching again the next day.
• Daoist Master Wei appeared atop the gate and summoned fierce winds and thunder, frightening the townsfolk and Qingxiao Sect disciples into retreating or kneeling.
• Li Qingqiu advanced toward Daoist Master Wei and declared that he would not believe the Daoist had Heaven’s favor.
• Daoist Master Wei repeatedly struck Li Qingqiu with lightning, but Li Qingqiu continued walking without injury, leaving the Daoist panicked and the townsfolk rising to watch.

Li Qingqiu subdued Daoist Master Wei, learned from his memories about the Emperor and the incomplete Purple Cloud Skill, and led Qingxiao Sect through the aftermath of the prefectural city’s liberation. As the sect returned from the city with new disciples and resources, its reputation and the loyalty of its disciples had risen.

• Daoist Master Wei tried to flee, but Li Qingqiu immobilized him and used the Soul Seizing Curse while Lin Chuan devoured his soul.
• Xu Ning discovered that Daoist Master Wei’s red flag could summon lightning, while Li Qingqiu learned from the daoist’s memories about the Emperor’s cultivation and the incomplete Purple Cloud Skill.
• Li Qingqiu led the group out of the city, and the next morning Qingxiao Sect rescued more prisoners before the Dongling Army arrived to take control.
• After confirming Qingxiao Sect was safe, Li Qingqiu flew ahead and later rejoined the group as they traveled home.
• Zhang Yuchun reported that the sect had recruited thirty-two disciples and collected nearly five thousand strings of cash and three hundred weapons.

After Ji Ya demonstrated the Hundred Refinements Demonic Body’s extraordinary potential, Li Qingqiu copied the body and made Ji Ya his fifth apprentice. The Qingxiao Sect rose in prominence through the winter, while Ji Ya’s first sparring match revealed his immense Origin Energy.

• Li Qingqiu secretly taught Ji Ya the Primordial Scripture, then received a Fate selection opportunity for leading the disciples to victory without losses.
• After Ji Ya accumulated Origin Energy comparable to a third-layer cultivator, Li Qingqiu copied the Hundred Refinements Demonic Body and spent two days refining his own Origin Energy to its limit.
• Li Qingqiu told Chai Yunshang he intended her to become Enforcement Hall master, and she accepted the responsibility with renewed purpose.
• Xuan Gong learned that Li Qingqiu had killed the Demon Emperor with one strike and ordered his Forbidden Martial Guards to report on the Qingxiao Sect master.
• As the Qingxiao Sect gained renown and welcomed support from the Chai Family, Ji Ya formally became Li Qingqiu’s fifth apprentice.
• Ji Ya sparred with Qin Ye and easily overwhelmed him, shocking Xu Ning with the vast amount of Origin Energy he possessed.

Li Qingqiu organized the Qingxiao Sect into seven halls, welcomed Zhu Yan as a new member, and received imperial recognition naming the sect Guzhou's foremost. The chapter ended when Guo Ziyan of the Forbidden Martial Guard challenged Li Qingqiu to a friendly match between the Central Heaven and Guzhou martial arts worlds.

• Li Qingqiu finalized the Qingxiao Sect's seven-hall structure, assigned hall masters, and established stipends for its members.
• The sect posted its new rules, began paying disciples, and opened the Training Hall to outside missions, boosting morale and drawing attention from guests.
• Zhu Yan donated her books and martial arts manuals to the Qingxiao Sect and joined as Deputy Hall Master of the Heavenly Works Hall.
• Officials from Zhenyang Imperial City announced the Emperor had named the Qingxiao Sect Guzhou's foremost sect and awarded it ten thousand taels of gold.
• Guo Ziyan introduced himself as a Forbidden Martial Guard and asked where Li Qingqiu was so he could challenge him to a friendly match.