Chapter Summaries

The Daoist in blue took up the Desolate Ancient Sword and faced the orc priest and his resurrected bone demon as the three clans prepared for a final battle. The sword’s attacks met the demon’s defenses, and the outcome remained uncertain.

• The middle-aged man used the sixth transformation of the Kunpeng to shatter the bone demon’s claw and injure the orc priest, but the priest summoned a golden apparition that destroyed both summoned creatures.
• The bone demon returned in black mist, and the Daoist in blue stepped in to fight while the injured middle-aged man withdrew.
• Wang Xian realized that the Dragon and Phoenix Clans had been manipulated into fighting each other so the barbarians could seize Broken Dragon Mountain and Windrest Lake.
• The Desolate Ancient Sword flew from Broken Dragon Mountain into Jingjing’s hand, and the orc priest warned that the supreme weapon could turn against its wielder.
• The Daoist in blue attacked the orc priest and bone demon with a torrent of Sword Qi, but the demon blocked and swallowed the strikes as the final battle continued.

The blue-robed Daoist used his blood to awaken the Heavenly Desolation Divine Sword, but it was damaged in its clash with the orc priest and flew away. The Coiling Dragon Divine Sword then emerged on Broken Dragon Mountain beside Wang Xian, who claimed it as his own while the priest attacked.

• The blue-robed Daoist sacrificed his blood to unleash the Heavenly Desolation Divine Sword’s power against the orc priest.
• The Heavenly Desolation Sword struck the demon blade, cracked, and flew toward the western horizon, while the orc priest’s blade was nicked.
• The Coiling Dragon Divine Sword rose from the stone on Broken Dragon Mountain after lightning stripped away its covering.
• The orc priest lunged for the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword, but the blue-robed Daoist and two companions blocked his path.
• The orc priest sent a black-miasma sword toward Wang Xian, who stood beside the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword and declared, “This is mine.”

Wang Xian tried to draw the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword at Broken Dragon Mountain, but it would not move, so he fought the beastman high priest with his bow and Giant Tower Sword while the Daoist in blue and his two companions joined the battle. As the three men struggled to contain the high priest, Wang Xian prepared an iron arrow and fired just as the high priest unleashed a blood-powered attack.

• The beastman high priest attacked Wang Xian on the summit, but Wang Xian blocked his strike with the wooden bow and shot down a bone demon with a bamboo arrow.
• Wang Xian failed to draw the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword and fought the high priest with the Giant Tower Sword until the Daoist in blue and his two companions arrived.
• The high priest could not draw the Divine Sword either, then resumed fighting Wang Xian and forced him back before the three men joined the battle.
• The Daoist in blue and his companions coordinated their attacks against the high priest, who used black mist to evade their strikes and counterattack.
• Wang Xian retreated, nocked a rune-engraved iron arrow on his wooden bow, and fired as the high priest coated his demon blade with blood and attacked.

Wang Xian killed the barbarian High Priest with a rune-etched arrow, but the dying High Priest damaged the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword and detonated himself, blasting the summit and gravely wounding the three other fighters. After the explosion, Wang Xian tried to claim the blood-drinking sword, and a golden pillar of light erupted from the bluestone beneath it.

• Wang Xian’s iron arrow shattered the High Priest’s demonic blade and pierced his chest, revealing that Wang Xian had forged the arrow and inscribed it with three runes.
• The High Priest struck the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword with his remaining blade, cracked it, and detonated his spiritual energy to take Wang Xian and the three other men with him.
• The explosion blasted the summit and sent the Daoist in blue, the middle-aged man, and the six-foot-tall man tumbling away, while Wang Xian emerged unharmed and threatened the High Priest’s escaping Divine Soul.
• Wang Xian grabbed the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword, cut his hand on a shard lodged in its hilt, and watched his blood flow into the sword.
• Wang Xian held the sword and shouted for it to emerge, causing a golden pillar of light to rise from the bluestone.

Bai Youyue triggered an ascension tribulation on Broken Dragon Mountain and used Mister’s bamboo arrows to bind and drain the life force of Dongfang Xuanyi, Granny Hundred Flowers, and other elders. The tribulation spread across the mountain and its surroundings, trapping tens of thousands of cultivators as Hua Mantian and Old Yuan began facing their own tribulations.

• Bai Youyue unleashed her blood qi, summoned the tribulation, and struck Dongfang Xuanyi, Granny Hundred Flowers, Nalan Yu, and other cultivators with bamboo arrows that drained their life force.
• Nangong Zhilan warned Nangong Fei'er to flee, while Tang Shisan and other cultivators tried to scatter before the tribulation lightning reached them.
• Old Yuan sent spiritual energy to Hua Mantian, and the first bolt of tribulation lightning struck her as she began her breakthrough.
• Hua Mantian told the gathered cultivators that the Four Great Sects had brought them to the mountain to kill her, and the crowd cursed the sects after realizing the tribulation had caught them too.
• Tribulation lightning struck cultivators across Broken Dragon Mountain, destroying Bai Wuhen’s Divine Sea and reducing Nalan Yu’s cultivation by a major realm.
• Bai Youyue caught a bolt of tribulation lightning and declared that the elders had brought about their own destruction by coming to kill her.

A heavenly tribulation devastated Broken Dragon Mountain, lowering the realms of tens of thousands of cultivators while Hua Mantian, Bai Youyue, and Old Yuan survived. As Bai Youyue and Old Yuan began ascending, Granny Hundred Flowers grabbed Bai Youyue, and a pair of blood-red eyes appeared to confront her.

• Old Sun and Huangfu Xuanyuan discussed how the first tribulation bolt had already weakened the cultivators, while the master sent a faint golden bell to protect Hua Mantian.
• The Academy’s students and elders, the imperial court, and cultivators across Broken Dragon Mountain watched as the tribulation struck, and Nalan Qiuqiu and Long Qingmei blamed Wang Xian for their suffering.
• Twenty-seven tribulation bolts left countless cultivators wounded and weakened, while Bai Wuhen fell to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• After the tribulation ended, Hua Mantian survived with help from Old Yuan and the master, and Bai Youyue and Old Yuan prepared to ascend.
• A pillar of golden light carried Bai Youyue and Old Yuan upward, but Granny Hundred Flowers seized Bai Youyue’s legs and vowed to drag her down.
• A pair of blood-red eyes appeared at the edge of the sky and ordered Granny Hundred Flowers to take her hands off Bai Youyue.

Wang Xian pulled the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword from Broken Dragon Mountain and joined forces with Yang Wanjin to send a sword strike across a thousand years. The strike severed Granny Hundred Flowers’s arm and helped Bai Youyue ascend, while Wang Xian warned the Four Great Sects that their conflict was not over.

• Wang Xian used the Immortal Longevity Scripture to devour the sword’s power and pulled the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword free from the bluestone.
• Yang Wanjin showed Wang Xian that a thousand years later Granny Hundred Flowers was clinging to Bai Youyue as she ascended, and Wang Xian resolved to strike her.
• Wang Xian and Yang Wanjin swung the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword together, sending a strike across a thousand years to Broken Dragon Mountain.
• The sword severed Granny Hundred Flowers’s arm before the punishing lightning fell, and Bai Youyue ascended after giving her bamboo bow to the Academy’s teacher.
• Wang Xian’s blood-red eyes warned the Four Great Sects that the conflict was not over.

The heavenly punishment ended the battle on Broken Dragon Mountain, leaving the surviving cultivators weakened and Wang Xian's role in the calamity widely suspected. As the sects withdrew and survivors regrouped, Hua Mantian awakened with her cultivation intact, while those at the blacksmith's shop discussed the aftermath and Zijin went to see her teacher.

• Dongfang Xuanyi ordered the Kunlun Sword Sect to return to the mountain for ten years, and Nangong Zhilan and the Tianshan Xuantian Sect's Supreme Elder likewise led their people away.
• Baili Wushuang and Meng Xiaodie helped the cultivation-depleted Granny Hundred Flowers leave, and Baili Wushuang claimed that Bai Youyue had died.
• Tang Qingyu cursed Wang Xian for the loss of her Spirit Transformation Realm, while Tang Shisan, Meng Xiaolou, Long Qingmei, and Ximen Tinghua supported one another off the summit.
• Qiu Mingyu recalled meeting Wang Xian after a summer storm and showed Nalan Qiuqiu and Maertai the piece of jade he had given her.
• Hua Mantian awoke alone on Broken Dragon Mountain and realized that her Divine Sea had advanced, making her a great cultivator in the Imperial City.
• At the blacksmith's shop, Wang Furong and the others discussed Wang Xian and the survivors' resentment, while Zijin left to visit her teacher.

Zijing learned that Wang Xian had traveled a thousand years into the past to see the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword, while the Imperial City’s powerful cultivators reacted to the upheaval at Broken Dragon Mountain. At the great river of time, Wang Xian and Yang Wanjin boarded the ghostly ship inside the jade coffin, and Wang Xian produced a five-colored divine stone that might protect them on their journey back.

• Zijing received Bai’s bamboo bow from the teacher and revealed that Wang Xian had gone a thousand years into the past to see the Coiling Dragon Divine Sword.
• Qiu Yuming, Nalan Qiuqiu, Martai, and their families reacted to the turmoil at Broken Dragon Mountain, while the Prince of the West realized it had quieted the realm’s threats to the First Prince.
• Wang Xian mourned his master’s ascension, then learned from Yang Wanjin that traveling downstream aboard the ghostly ship would make them age rapidly unless they had an immortal coffin.
• Wang Xian boarded the ghostly ship with Yang Wanjin and brought out the jade coffin from Broken Dragon Mountain, which they entered to escape the erosion of time.
• Yang Wanjin said they still needed a time divine stone, and Wang Xian produced a five-colored stone.

Yang Wanjin guided Wang Xian through cultivating longevity blood in the River of Time, where he unexpectedly formed a chaotic Longevity Wheel, three drops of longevity blood, and a mysterious Heavenly Book. After they emerged, they found themselves in a silent star-filled realm that Yang Wanjin suspected was the River of Time’s end or the Divine Sea’s source, and Wang Xian wondered what had happened to the immortals aboard the Netherworld Ship.

• Yang Wanjin explained longevity blood and the Longevity Wheel, then led Wang Xian through breathing and cultivation inside the jade coffin.
• The River of Time’s power helped Wang Xian form a chaotic Longevity Wheel and refine one drop of longevity blood into three.
• The jade coffin, Netherworld Ship, and River of Time joined their markings, and the river imprinted a blank Heavenly Book into Wang Xian’s Divine Sea.
• Wang Xian woke after the River of Time vanished, and Yang Wanjin led him through a silent star-filled realm.
• Yang Wanjin guessed they had reached the River of Time’s end or the Divine Sea’s source, and Wang Xian asked what had happened to the great immortals who boarded the Netherworld Ship.

Wang Xian and Yang Wanjin discovered a pool of divine water and stones, but were pulled into the pool with the jade coffin. Wang Xian later awoke in Moon City after sleeping for ten days, where profound ice had trapped Hu Keke and the crow; the chapter left him back with his companions, wondering where his master had gone.

• Yang Wanjin and Wang Xian found a pool of divine water containing seven-colored divine stones, and three stones entered Wang Xian's jade disc.
• Yang Wanjin failed to take the divine water, while Wang Xian tossed the jade coffin into the pool and jumped in after it when it began sinking.
• Yang Wanjin grabbed Wang Xian's leg and followed him into the divine pool, and both vanished with the jade coffin.
• In Moon City, Hu Keke and the crow discovered that Wang Xian's room had become an ice chamber and were frozen while trying to wake him.
• Wang Xian woke after ten days, and the profound ice around him, Hu Keke, and the crow split apart and vanished.
• Wang Xian told Hu Keke and the crow that he had spent the ten days on the Heavenly Street, then lamented that he had brought back no heavenly treasure.

After waking with his legs healed, Wang Xian recalled being swept into the Divine River and accidentally sent a drop of divine water into Brightmoon Lake, awakening a long-dormant lotus seed. As he prepared to practice swordsmanship, A-Lang, a swordsman from the imperial city, confronted him and attacked.

• Wang Xian woke from his long sleep, ate porridge with Hu Keke and the crow, and sent them shopping while he tried to make sense of his journey through the Divine River.
• The divine water that had frozen Hu Keke and the crow melted, and a drop drifted into Brightmoon Lake, sank to its bed, and awakened an ancient lotus seed.
• Wang Xian found that his legs had healed and that he had returned with three divine stones and the Giant Palace Sword, then wrote talismans in the snow and prepared to practice.
• A-Lang arrived by leaf-shaped boat, identified himself as a swordsman from the imperial city, and challenged Wang Xian over his healed legs.
• Wang Xian warned A-Lang to leave, but A-Lang drew his sword and struck as Wang Xian raised a bamboo twig.

Wang Xian froze A-Lang in profound ice and sent him sinking beneath Brightmoon Lake, while Hu Keke faced a Nascent Soul Realm pursuer in Moonlight City. A woman from the Four Seasons Tower and a blind old musician intervened, as Wang Xian watched from afar with his bow aimed at the street.

• Wang Xian breathed out a blast of ice that trapped A-Lang and sent him into Brightmoon Lake, then prepared his bow in case Hu Keke encountered trouble.
• Hu Keke and the crow were confronted in Moonlight City by a middle-aged man and his servant, who threatened to kill or abduct him.
• A woman from the Four Seasons Tower asked the middle-aged man to let Hu Keke go, while Hu Keke warned the man to leave the city.
• A blind old man appeared across the street and played a two-stringed fiddle, and the woman warned the middle-aged man that he would die if he ignored her.
• Wang Xian watched the confrontation from Brightmoon Lake, recognized the threat to Hu Keke, and wondered whether the blind man was the old man he had seen in Phoenix Town.

Wang Xian intervened from afar as Hu Keke faced assassins from the Green Robe Tower, but the fight ended with the middle-aged assassin dead and the blind swordsman still standing. The chapter left the identities and fates of the surviving figures unresolved.

• Wang Xian told the middle-aged assassin to leave, while the blind old man warned that Moon City was not the Green Robe Tower’s territory.
• The woman in the carriage chose to leave, and Hu Keke refused to accept help or incur a debt of gratitude.
• The middle-aged man attacked, and his servant opened a hidden weapon inside the wooden box, firing short arrows at Hu Keke.
• A golden light around Hu Keke repelled the arrows, which struck and killed the servant; the crow then took the servant’s Storage Ring.
• The blind old man fought the middle-aged assassin, and the assassin fell dead into the snow after their swords clashed.

Wang Xian killed the Imperial City assassin who attacked Hu Keke, then welcomed Hu Keke and the blind man back to his lakeside courtyard. While discussing Miss Murong and the unopened secret realm, the blind man revealed that Murong Wan'er and Feng Yanran were close, leaving Wang Xian to wonder about their connection.

• Wang Xian secretly shot the middle-aged assassin with a golden arrow, killing him and his servant, and the raven took the assassin's Storage Ring.
• The blind man returned to the Four Seasons Tower and told Miss Murong that Wang Xian had killed the master and servant from the Imperial City, frightening her with the realization that she had missed her chance.
• Hu Keke brought the blind man to Wang Xian's lakeside courtyard, where Wang Xian asked who had sent the assassins and what Miss Murong had been doing there.
• Wang Xian and the blind man discussed Miss Murong, the secret realm, and the blind man's hope of finding a spirit herb to restore his sight.
• The blind man said Miss Murong and Feng Yanran were very close, prompting Wang Xian to wonder what connected the young lady of the Bright Moon Manor and the famous beauty of the Four Seasons Tower.

Murong Wan'er told Feng Yanran about the mysterious young man and his crow, while Dongfang Nishang and the Old Daoist used the Kunlun Mirror to check on Wang Xian. Wang Xian explained his journey to Broken Dragon Mountain and revealed that he had killed Dongfang Qiming after the elder joined the Barbarian Clan.

• Murong Wan'er visited Feng Yanran and described meeting a young man, a talking crow, and a hidden-faced figure, prompting Feng Yanran to seek out the blind man.
• Dongfang Nishang brought the Imperial City’s letter to the Old Daoist, who worried that the world’s cultivators would blame Wang Xian for Bai Youyue’s departure.
• Dongfang Nishang asked the Old Daoist to use the Kunlun Mirror, and they saw Wang Xian reading Dao Scripture by a snowy lake.
• Wang Xian told the Old Daoist and Dongfang Nishang that he had traveled a thousand years into the past and witnessed the battle at Broken Dragon Mountain.
• Wang Xian admitted he had carved the arrow that destroyed Kunlun Hall and revealed that he had killed Dongfang Qiming after finding him with the Barbarian Clan.

Wang Xian spoke with the Old Daoist and Dongfang Nishang about his plans to confront the Four Great Sects, his former senior sisters, and the chances to ascend he had given up. He left them gifts and spirit tea before vanishing, while Dongfang Nishang and the Old Daoist realized he had been connected to a divine dragon.

• Wang Xian vowed to demand answers from the Four Great Sects for their attack on his master and said he no longer owed his senior sisters anything.
• Wang Xian told the Old Daoist and Dongfang Nishang he had turned down three chances to ascend, then gave Dongfang Nishang rouge, powder, a handkerchief, and spirit tea.
• Wang Xian explained that the Azure Edge Sword had gone to the Dragon Princess and that the little loach from the Academy had become a divine dragon before ascending with her.
• Wang Xian vanished from Dongfang Nishang's sight, leaving her and the Old Daoist nearly frozen by the cold he released.
• Dongfang Nishang and the Old Daoist brewed the spirit tea and discussed Wang Xian's gifts and his attachment to them.
• Dongfang Nishang realized the little loach Wang Xian had mentioned was a divine dragon and exclaimed in shock.

Wang Xian spent the snowy days practicing swordplay with the blind man and preparing his rune-covered courtyard for future assassins. Alone on New Year's Eve, he wrote the Dao Scripture in the snow and reflected on old companions before catching a faint floral scent as he drifted off.

• Wang Xian carved runes around his courtyard and sparred with the blind man in the snow while preparing for the return of the Imperial Capital's assassins.
• Murong Wan'er asked the blind man about Wang Xian, but he warned her not to disturb him before the New Year because he wanted to practice his sword.
• Wang Xian and the blind man tested Juque, and the blind man struggled to lift and swing the nearly three-hundred-jin sword.
• On New Year's Eve, Wang Xian wrote the Dao Scripture in the snow with Juque, cooked food, and wondered about his master, martial uncle, and senior sisters.
• Wang Xian drank alone, thought about Tang Qingyu and Long Qingmei, and noticed a faint floral scent as he grew half asleep.

On New Year's Eve, Murong Wan'er broke into Wang Xian's home, tricked him into drinking wine containing a love poison, and revealed she wanted his help entering a secret realm. The chapter ended with her accusing him of knowing demonic arts.

• Wang Xian dreamed that Long Qingmei gave him wine and climbed under his blanket, then woke to find an unfamiliar woman beside him.
• Wang Xian recognized Murong Wan'er as the woman connected to the carriage that had refused to save Hu Keke, and she admitted she had come to poison him.
• Murong Wan'er explained that she had tricked Wang Xian into signing a life-bond contract with his blood and burned it into the wine, which he drank.
• Murong Wan'er revealed she belonged to the Hehuan Sect and asked Wang Xian to help her and Feng Yanran find spirit herbs in a secret realm.
• Wang Xian refused, and Murong Wan'er told him that Feng Yanran had said he knew demonic arts.

Wang Xian was poisoned by Murong Wan'er, who demanded that he accompany her to the secret realm and promised to marry him after reaching Spirit Transformation. He drove her from his courtyard and considered using the same scheme that had backfired with Long Qingmei and Tang Qingyu to get rid of her.

• Wang Xian ate lamb buns and drank wine with Murong Wan'er, then warned her that his wine was poisoned.
• Murong Wan'er attacked Wang Xian with her sword, but his power forced her back.
• Murong Wan'er offered to marry Wang Xian if he helped her break through in the secret realm, and he told her Long Qingmei had made the same promise before losing her cultivation.
• Wang Xian said the road through Ghosts' Bane had been severed, but Murong Wan'er doubted him and demanded to know why she felt no poison.
• Wang Xian hurled Murong Wan'er out of his courtyard and repelled her again when she charged back; she left cursing and threatening to return with Feng Yanran.
• Wang Xian reflected on his love poison and decided he might repeat the plan he had used with Long Qingmei and Tang Qingyu to make Murong Wan'er look down on him.