Chapter Summaries

A miraculous spirit rain transformed cultivators across the land, while Duanmu Xi took her family and Wang Haotian to Shu Mountain to await Wang Xian. Unaware of these changes, Wang Xian left his Azure Cloud Sect courtyard to help Hua Yurong investigate the disappearance of Yue Qingqing, Yao Xiangyun, and the search party sent after them.

• Old Sun, the dean, and the blacksmith recognized that Wang Xian had comprehended the Dao as sacred rain swept the land and advanced cultivators across the realms.
• Duanmu Xi secretly brought her family to Shu Mountain, where Wang Haotian paid respects at Wang Xian's mother's grave before they left to wait for Wang Xian.
• Wang Xian spent the winter practicing swordsmanship and embroidery under Qin Jun's guidance, then hurried to the library tower when she summoned him.
• Qin Jun told Wang Xian that Yue Qingqing and Yao Xiangyun had gone missing on a mission and that Xu Baoshan's search party had also disappeared.
• Wang Xian agreed to accompany Hua Yurong on an investigation, packed his belongings, and reluctantly left his courtyard at noon.

Wang Xian and Hua Yurong traveled down the Blackwater River, where Hua Yurong’s horse frightened another horse into drowning. The dead horse’s owners from Nine Nether Mountain demanded compensation and threatened Hua Yurong, while Wang Xian tried to keep the dispute from turning violent.

• Wang Xian left Azure Cloud Sect with Hua Yurong and told her he would eventually return to his own world to fulfill an unfinished wish.
• Wang Xian carved a Peace Talisman into a bamboo arrow for Hua Yurong as they traveled by boat.
• Hua Yurong’s horse whinnied, frightening a chestnut horse at the stern into the Blackwater River, where it drowned.
• Wang Xian offered to compensate the horse’s owners, but Hua Yurong argued with them and the owners insulted and threatened the pair.
• The woman from Nine Nether Mountain demanded that Hua Yurong become her husband’s concubine, and Wang Xian explained the threat to her.
• Wang Xian challenged the middle-aged man over whether they would settle the dispute with reason or force, and the man ordered Chen San to kill the horse.

Wang Xian confronted Chen Tiannan and Jiuyou Mountain after they attacked him and Hua Yurong over a horse. He freed the white horse and challenged his accusers, then Lu Feng attacked him and was knocked into the Blackwater River.

• Wang Xian punched the black-clad man, disarmed him, and sent his poisoned hidden weapon back into his arm before a woman cut off the injured limb.
• Wang Xian fed the white horse a thousand-year-old spirit herb, freed it, and used chaotic power to help it gallop across the river and escape.
• Chen Tiannan threatened Wang Xian, while a gray-robed old man on the second deck mocked him and defended the Blackwater River's rule that the strongest made the rules.
• Wang Xian demanded an apology and pointed his bamboo arrow at Lu Feng, prompting the gray-robed old man to order Lu Feng to fight him.
• Lu Feng vanished from the second deck and struck at Wang Xian, but a streak of Sword Qi hit Lu Feng in the chest and sent him splashing into the river.

Wang Xian left the boat with Hua Yurong after an old man quietly led them toward a riverside town, while Chen Tiannan sent a message by bird. On deserted stone steps, Lü Feng confronted Wang Xian, but five bandits interrupted them, and Wang Xian drew Hua Yurong’s sword to strike two attackers with his One Sword No Trace.

• Wang Xian’s strike sent Lü Feng into the Blackwater River, but Lü Feng later burst out of the water and escaped toward the far bank.
• Hua Yurong revealed her Azure Cloud Sect token, and Chen Tiannan chose not to pursue the matter over the horse.
• An old man quietly called Wang Xian and Hua Yurong off the boat at a riverside town, and Chen Tiannan sent a message by bird after they had left.
• Wang Xian warned Hua Yurong that Chen Tiannan and the old man might attack them away from witnesses, and they followed the old man up the stone steps.
• Lü Feng blocked Wang Xian and Hua Yurong on the deserted steps, where five bandits demanded their Storage Ring and two attacked Wang Xian.
• Wang Xian used Hua Yurong’s spirit sword and One Sword No Trace to evade the two attackers, and Lü Feng praised his sword.

Wang Xian defeated the Five Immortals of the Blackwater River and followed Lü Feng to meet a mysterious old man, whose poisoned-wine warnings led to a guarded conversation about Wang Xian’s origins and the Azure Cloud Sect. The old man ended by offering to tell Wang Xian about an important matter involving the sect.

• Wang Xian killed the remaining Five Immortals of the Blackwater River with embroidery needles and a spirit sword, while Hua Yurong collected their Storage Rings.
• Lü Feng led Wang Xian and Hua Yurong to an inn, where the gray-robed old man tested Wang Xian’s swordsmanship with bamboo chopsticks.
• Wang Xian traded warnings about poisoned wine with the old man, and Hua Yurong and Lü Feng both got drunk while Wang Xian stayed sober.
• The old man asked whether Wang Xian and Hua Yurong belonged to the Azure Cloud Sect, and Wang Xian said Hua Yurong was an enforcer in its Law Enforcement Hall.
• The old man asked what Wang Xian knew about Nine Nether Mountain and the Demon Realm, then offered to tell him about an important matter concerning the Azure Cloud Sect.

Wang Xian allied with Wine Obsession of the Seven Immortals Ridge to rescue Azure Cloud Sect disciples imprisoned at Baihua Ridge and secure a share of its spirit vein. After Wine Obsession left to deliver Wang Xian’s letter, Wang Xian set out with Lu Feng and Hua Yurong for Baihua Ridge, where they encountered a bewitching woman.

• Wang Xian negotiated with Wine Obsession, offering to help with his trouble in exchange for three thousand catties of spirit wine.
• Wine Obsession told Wang Xian that Nine Nether Mountain had imprisoned Azure Cloud Sect disciples in a mine at Baihua Ridge, where a spirit vein had been discovered.
• Wang Xian wrote a letter directing Wine Obsession to find Qin Jun and bring Lu Feng to Baihua Ridge, promising the Seven Immortals Ridge a share of the gains.
• Wang Xian warned Wine Obsession to keep his identity secret and said he would protect Lu Feng if the rescue turned dangerous.
• Wine Obsession left for the Azure Cloud Sect, and Wang Xian told Lu Feng and Hua Yurong they were going to Baihua Ridge instead of Ten Thousand Beasts City.
• Wang Xian, Lu Feng, and Hua Yurong encountered a cold-eyed woman in thin gauze on the way to Baihua Ridge.

Wang Xian and his companions were ambushed by Chen Ling'er and a group of black-clad attackers. Wang Xian killed four of them and held Chen Ling'er at swordpoint, where she revealed she had expected to face a weak Qi Refining Realm cultivator.

• Wang Xian recognized Chen Ling'er of Nine Nether Mountain as a threat and challenged her, while Lü Feng warned him to be careful.
• Four black-clad men arrived, and Chen Ling'er and one attacker launched a surprise sword assault on Wang Xian.
• Wang Xian killed the first black-clad attacker and sent Chen Ling'er flying, then deflected her hidden lightning weapon.
• Three more black-clad men attacked, but Wang Xian caught two swords and swiftly killed all three attackers.
• Wang Xian placed his sword at Chen Ling'er's throat, and she said she had expected to face a Qi Refining Realm weakling and accused him of disappointing her.

Wang Xian, Hua Yurong, and Lü Feng reached Hundred Flower Ridge to investigate the captured Azure Cloud Sect disciples and the spirit vein, then found a mysterious stone house at dusk. The chapter ended as a pale young man invited them inside.

• Chen Ling'er escaped Wang Xian with a teleportation scroll after an archer interrupted his attack, and the archer vanished as well.
• Wang Xian, Hua Yurong, and Lü Feng took the fallen cultivators' horses and rode to Hundred Flower Ridge, where Lü Feng revealed that Azure Cloud Sect disciples were being held in mine tunnels.
• Hua Yurong found a jade pendant in a stream, and Lü Feng recognized it as a token from the Chen family of Clear River Town.
• Wang Xian suspected a defensive formation near the mine tunnels and decided the group would act after dark.
• At dusk, the three found a stone house and cautiously approached it, but a pale young man carrying a lantern emerged and invited them inside.

Wang Xian, Lu Feng, and Hua Yurong entered a haunted residence, where Wang Xian fought off its snake-like spirits and the companions discovered that its lantern-bearing guide was a monster. The creatures trapped them inside and turned their attacks on Wang Xian, while Hua Yurong called for him to use a talisman.

• Wang Xian, Lu Feng, and Hua Yurong entered the residence, where falling fruits transformed into snakes and Wang Xian destroyed them with leaf swords and Buddhist power.
• Wang Xian swallowed the snakes’ black smoke with a mass of black mist, then let the spirits go after the young man explained they were harmless snake fruits.
• A white-clad woman appeared and vanished after Wang Xian spat fire at her, while her eerie voice and the lantern-bearing guide’s shifting form revealed that the group was being deceived.
• The guide transformed into a giant green serpent and attacked Wang Xian as the gate sealed and a demonic array spread black energy across the courtyard.
• Hua Yurong used talismans and Lu Feng wielded Sword Qi to fend off skeletal hands, while the white-clad woman became a giant white serpent and the fruit trees attacked Wang Xian.
• Hua Yurong watched the serpents and fruit snakes converge on Wang Xian and asked where his talisman was.

Wang Xian killed two serpent demons sent by the Chen family of Qinghe Town and decided to enter the mountains to rescue the prisoners. He left Hua Yurong and Lü Feng outside a formation to prepare an ambush, then approached a group whispering ahead to learn whether they belonged to Nine Nether Mountain or the Chen family.

• Wang Xian unleashed the Divine Dragon Flame and destroyed the swarm of black snakes and the fruit trees as the green snake attacked.
• Wang Xian killed the white snake with his spirit sword and defeated the green snake with a hand seal and talisman swords; Lü Feng shot down the green snake's escaping Divine Soul.
• Wang Xian found matching jade pendants among the snakes' Storage Rings and concluded that the Chen family of Qinghe Town had sent them.
• Wang Xian gave Hua Yurong and Lü Feng invisibility talismans, told them to prepare traps, and crossed the formation alone to rescue the prisoners.
• Lü Feng laid out bows and crossbows while Hua Yurong wondered whether the Chen family was connected to Nine Nether Mountain.
• Wang Xian considered whether powerful figures in his former world might also be allied with their enemies, then crept toward a group whispering in the distance.

Wang Xian rescued the surviving Azure Cloud Sect disciples from the mine and led them through Nine Nether Mountain’s protective formation. He stayed behind with Lu Feng to delay their pursuers, while the others fled down the mountain.

• Wang Xian overheard Household guards reveal that Azure Cloud Sect disciples were imprisoned in a nearby mine, then used Bewitching Incense to incapacitate the sentries and enter it.
• Wang Xian found Yao Xiangyun, Yue Qingqing, Xu Baoshan, and the other surviving captives, gave them an antidote, and told Yao Xiangyun to bring evidence of the Household’s betrayal to Elder Qin.
• Wang Xian led the rescued disciples to Hua Yurong and Lu Feng, blasted open the protective formation, and sent the group down the mountain with Hua Yurong.
• The breached formation alerted the Household and Nine Nether Mountain cultivators, who sounded the alarm and pursued the escaping disciples.
• Wang Xian and Lu Feng fired explosive arrows at the pursuers, and Wang Xian urged Lu Feng to escape while he stayed behind to hold them off.

Wang Xian held off the Nine Nether Mountain forces so Lü Feng could evacuate the wounded, while Hua Yurong survived a heart-piercing arrow after Wang Xian gave her Ju Ruo’s dragon pearl and spirit wine. Left alone, Wang Xian faced Chen Fan and his demonic wolves as the attackers charged from the burning formation.

• Wang Xian fired on the Nine Nether Mountain cultivators and stayed behind to buy time for Lü Feng and the others to escape.
• An elder’s arrow pierced Hua Yurong’s heart, but Wang Xian gave her Ju Ruo’s dragon pearl and spirit wine before Lü Feng carried her away.
• Lü Feng met Yao Xiangyun and the others by the creek, and they fled down the mountain without waiting for Wang Xian.
• Chen Fan and the other pursuers charged out of the burning formation and attacked Wang Xian with three demonic wolves.
• Wang Xian turned and ran into the woods to evade Chen Fan’s attack.

Wang Xian used his formations and dragon power to kill Chen Fan’s three dire wolves, then fought Chen Fan and the forces of the Chen House and Jiuyou Mountain. The enemy bombarded the woods with Heaven-Shaking Thunderbolts, leaving Wang Xian’s fate unknown as Chen Fan ordered his men to search for his corpse.

• Wang Xian trapped Chen Fan’s three dire wolves and killed them with three punches powered by the divine dragon.
• Chen Fan attacked Wang Xian, who fought back with his sword and nearly cut Chen Fan’s neck with a Kunlun-trained technique.
• Wang Xian roared apart Chen Fan’s mist skeleton, sent Chen Fan flying, and killed two Chen House cultivators as the enemy forces charged.
• Chen Fan and the Jiuyou Mountain men threw more than a dozen Heaven-Shaking Thunderbolts into the woods, causing a series of explosions.
• After the blasts, Chen Fan ordered his men to enter the woods and whip Wang Xian’s corpse.

Wang Xian escaped the assault at Baihua Ridge after setting off an Explosive Talisman and a Carefree Pill, but the aftermath left his fate uncertain. In a dreamlike encounter after his death, Yang Wanjin revived him, and King Qin Guang seized him before he could stay in the upper realm.

• The scarred elder broke Wang Xian’s spiritual sword, pinned him to a tree, and ordered Chen Fan’s men to kill him.
• Wang Xian detonated an Explosive Talisman and the Carefree Pill, then escaped with a teleportation scroll as the poison mist overwhelmed the attackers.
• Hua Yurong, Qin Jun, Lü Feng, and the Azure Cloud Sect arrived at Baihua Ridge and found a battlefield strewn with poisoned corpses, but no trace of Wang Xian.
• Hua Yurong worried over Wang Xian’s disappearance while Qin Jun ordered the battlefield searched and a new mountain-protection formation built.
• Wang Xian dreamed that Yang Wanjin pulled him back from death with a speck of starlight, then King Qin Guang grabbed him as he tried to remain in the upper realm.

Wang Xian recovered from his near-fatal arrow wound while cultivating the Immortal Longevity Scripture, which also restored the injured Chen Ling'er. After they woke and argued in a stream, they realized they had saved one another, though neither understood how their wounds had vanished.

• Wang Xian woke in an unfamiliar, deathly place with his chest wound gone, then ate and cultivated to recover his strength.
• Wang Xian's cultivation brought the dead grass and old tree back to life and restored Chen Ling'er, whose hair and body had withered away.
• Chen Ling'er woke naked and screamed, and Wang Xian fled to a stream before recognizing her as the woman from Jiuyou Mountain who had pursued him.
• Chen Ling'er followed Wang Xian into the stream, where he accidentally touched her and then ran off in embarrassment.
• Chen Ling'er revealed that she had pulled the arrow from Wang Xian and treated him after they were both transported away; Wang Xian surmised that his scripture cultivation had healed them both.
• Chen Ling'er noticed her clothes had become ashes, accused Wang Xian of taking advantage of her, and asked him for wine.

After escaping Nine Nether Mountain, Chen Ling'er joined Wang Xian on his journey, and the two chose to head north toward Dragon City. At an inn, a lecherous man in white harassed Chen Ling'er and threatened Wang Xian, who remained calm as the confrontation escalated.

• Chen Ling'er told Wang Xian that Chen Tiannan had attacked her for failing to kill him, and she decided to travel with him rather than return to Nine Nether Mountain.
• After reaching a town, Chen Ling'er bought a map and chose to go to Dragon City; Wang Xian agreed to accompany her.
• At Good Come Inn, a man in white invited Chen Ling'er to drink and demanded that she remove her clothes.
• Chen Ling'er called Wang Xian her man to provoke the stranger, while Wang Xian calmly served wine and food.
• The man in white drank Wang Xian's spirit wine, threatened to kill him, and Chen Ling'er warned that Wang Xian would kill the man before he could see her naked.

Wang Xian poisoned a threatening man in white, who transformed into a giant flower snake before Wang Xian burned him to death. Chen Ling'er recovered the snake's Storage Ring and blamed Wang Xian for attracting trouble, then drank the wine he had poured for her and demanded that he poison her too.

• The man in white threatened Wang Xian and Chen Ling'er, but Wang Xian stayed calm while the man showed off his heavy Spirit Sword.
• Wang Xian revealed that the wine was poisoned, and the man in white began coughing black blood as Chen Ling'er realized she had nearly drunk the poisoned wine.
• The poisoned man transformed into a giant flower snake and attacked Wang Xian, who caught it by the tail and burned it with golden flames.
• Wang Xian told Chen Ling'er to retrieve the snake's Storage Ring and said they would split its contents.
• Chen Ling'er blamed Wang Xian for the trouble that followed him, drank the wine he had poured for her, and told him to poison her to death.

Wang Xian stayed behind after Chen Ling'er got drunk, while the Azure Cloud Sect celebrated defeating the traitors in Qinghe Town. Qin Jun revealed how Wang Xian had helped expose the conspiracy, then accused Second Elder Mo Yibai of betraying the sect; Mo Yibai was poisoned and confessed his resentment as the elders discovered the Enforcement Hall had concealed the missing disciples.

• Chen Ling'er ran to her room after Wang Xian admitted he had tried to get her drunk and carry her back, and Wang Xian arranged for two horned horses for their journey the next day.
• The Azure Cloud Sect wiped out the Chen Household's remaining people in Qinghe Town and held a victory gathering after securing the spirit vein at Hundred Flowers Ridge.
• Qin Jun told the elders that Wang Xian was her student, explained how he had helped expose the traitors, and challenged the Enforcement Hall over its mishandling of the missing disciples.
• Mo Yibai coughed up black blood, and Qin Jun accused him of poisoning his wine and betraying Azure Cloud Mountain.
• Linghu Yuan read letters from Qin Jun's Storage Ring and confronted Dongfang Buer, while Mo Yibai admitted his resentment toward the sect's elders before collapsing.

Qin Jun used the Lady's Sword to kill Mo Yibai and revealed that Wang Xian had given it to her, while Azure Cloud Sect settled its dispute over the spirit vein. Meanwhile, Wang Xian trapped a masked woman who tried to steal his golden sword, then rode out of town with Chen Ling'er as the woman pursued them.

• Qin Jun severed Mo Yibai's hands before he could use his Heaven-Shaking Thunderbolts, then killed him with the Lady's Sword.
• Linghu Yuan and the others knelt when they recognized the Lady's Sword, but Qin Jun refused the sect master's position and said Wang Xian had given her the sword.
• Azure Cloud Sect secured the spirit vein and the Lady's Sword, while Nine Nether Mountain backed down and Qin Jun stopped worrying about Wang Xian's intact soul jade.
• A masked woman tried to steal Wang Xian's golden sword, but he swapped it for an ordinary sword and trapped her outside the inn with a formation.
• Wang Xian and Chen Ling'er rode out of town the next morning as the woman in blue pursued them, and Wang Xian teased Chen Ling'er about being called a female demon.

Wang Xian and his companions encountered an old Daoist who had forced a little girl named Xiangxiang to help him rob travelers. After Xiangxiang reunited with her sister Chen Xiaoyu, Wang Xian confronted the old man, whose attack continued toward him after Wang Xian blocked his first strike.

• An old Daoist and Xiangxiang waited on Blackwind Mountain to rob travelers, and the old man hit her when she challenged his teachings.
• Wang Xian, Chen Ling'er, and Chen Xiaoyu arrived, and Xiangxiang ran to Chen Xiaoyu and warned her that their master would kill them.
• Wang Xian demanded that the old man release Xiangxiang, but the old man refused and attacked him with black mist and a talisman.
• Wang Xian formed a lotus that swallowed the black mist and blocked the old man's talisman attack.
• The old man shattered the lotus with his sword, and his Sword Qi kept rushing toward Wang Xian.