Chapter Summaries

Li Mo worked on mastering the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and showed Ying Bing his latest Black Cloud Gauze creations before they headed to the Weapon Forging Conference. At Heavenly Mountain Sword Villa, a commotion broke out when someone was caught carrying banned drugs.

• Li Mo reflected on his progress in the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and asked Ying Bing for help speeding up his physique training.
• Li Mo presented Ying Bing with stockings and garters he claimed to have forged from Black Cloud Gauze.
• Craftsmen from across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths gathered at Heavenly Mountain Sword Villa for the Weapon Forging Conference.
• Li Mo heard that someone had been caught carrying banned drugs.

Li Mo discovered that the Demon Summoning Cult was smuggling Divine Strength Paste into the Weapon Forging Conference through Instant Noodles seasoning. He warned Du Wufeng, who reacted angrily after learning that the paste was already inside the venue.

• The Heavenly Mountain Thirteen Guardians mistook Lu Zhuang’s Heavenly Venerable Sauce powder for Divine Strength Powder and detained him until he explained it was seasoning.
• Li Mo used his Heavenly Mandate Divine Eye and learned that Lu Zhuang was carrying Divine Strength Powder hidden in the sauce packet, and that repeated use had damaged his bones.
• Li Mo realized Blood Refinement Hall had upgraded Divine Strength Powder into paste and concealed it in Instant Noodles seasoning sold by the Demon Summoning Cult.
• Li Mo told Du Wufeng that Divine Strength Paste had likely been brought into the Weapon Forging Conference venue in Instant Noodles packets.
• Du Wufeng slammed the table and cursed whoever had invented Instant Noodles.

Li Mo investigated the use of Divine Strength Powder at the Weapon Forging Conference, only to find the event openly sponsored and broadcast with a bizarre bodybuilding-style preliminary round. When two contestants used the powder in front of him, Li Mo challenged their claim to true power by unleashing his own overwhelming blood and vitality.

• Du Wufeng decided the conference would continue while secretly investigating contestants who chewed sauce packets, and Li Mo went to compete.
• Li Mo discovered that Heavenly Venerable Brand instant noodles sponsored the conference and that the Map of Mountains and Rivers was broadcasting it across the Imperial Capital.
• The first preliminary group was judged through bodybuilding poses, and Tie Qi warned Li Mo that the conference seemed suspicious.
• Li Mo and Tie Qi saw the scrawny craftsman and another contestant use Divine Strength Powder before their group took the stage.
• Li Mo mocked the pair's supposed strength and unleashed his own immense blood and vitality.

After Li Mo won the preliminary round with a mysterious surge of strength, he arranged to trace the source of the Divine Strength Powder. He watched Du Wufeng forge a sword for Jiang Yu and absorbed the craftsman's techniques, while Jiang Yu abruptly pointed the finished blade toward the space beneath the stage.

• Jiang Yu said Li Mo had borrowed external strength, but Du Wufeng demonstrated how powerful physiques could be compressed and insisted Li Mo's display might come from a special martial art.
• Li Mo denied using drugs, then persuaded Lu Zhuang to help him find the source of the Heavenly Venerable Brand instant noodles after the conference.
• Li Mo took first place in the preliminary round and went to the Sword Mound to collect Ying Bing and Princess Little Jiang before the next stage.
• Du Wufeng ignited the Sword Furnace and forged a sword for Jiang Yu, explaining that forging a weapon also tempered the heart.
• Li Mo watched Du Wufeng's hammering and felt the techniques flow through his heart before Ying Bing brought him back to the moment.
• Jiang Yu received the finished sword, narrowed his eyes, and pointed it beneath the stage as the blade rang like a dragon.

Du Wufeng forged a famed sword that Jiang Yu named Venerable Dragon, then the next weapon-forging round began with contestants searching a mountain of broken weapons. While Li Mo stayed still and listened to the weapons with Jiang Chulong’s help, Ying Bing used her power to summon a broken curved sword from the pile.

• Du Wufeng presented his famed sword to Jiang Yu, who named it Venerable Dragon and hoped to make it shine on the Divine Weapon Ranking.
• Xie Xuan refused Jiang Yu’s invitation to spar, while Jiang Yu said he had given the others an opportunity and expressed confidence in his new sword.
• The host announced that contestants had one shichen to select broken weapons from the Sword Mound and remelt them into materials.
• As other craftsmen rushed toward the weapon pile, Li Mo asked Jiang Chulong to identify the weapons with the loudest voices and ignored the crowd’s criticism.
• Jiang Chulong whispered to Ying Bing, who used a sword-finger gesture to make a broken curved sword fly out of the weapon mountain and stop before her.

Li Mo began forging a weapon at the Weapon Forging Conference, astonishing the crowd with his skill and his effortless ability to obtain rare materials. As he twisted and layered the metals, Master Craftsman Du explained the technique and the spiritual harmonization it required.

• Li Mo asked Chulong for a list of rare materials, and Little Li used Ice Block to summon the materials and broken weapons he needed.
• Li Mo’s projected display of affection with Ice Block enraged the audience, while Bai Jinghong, Cao Mu, and Wu Chushu watched without surprise.
• Xiao Qin and Huang Donglai arrived at Sword Furnace Plaza after mistaking each other for a threat and fighting until they recognized they were both Li Mo’s friends.
• Li Mo selected more broken weapons than the other craftsmen, drawing skepticism from the crowd and uncertainty from Du Wufeng.
• Li Mo heated Gale Iron in the Sword Furnace and began forging with Forty, while Ice Block prepared to quench the sword blank.
• Du Wufeng identified Li Mo’s work as laminated steel, or Three-Layer Joining, and explained that the finished weapon depended on his ability to twist, stack, and harmonize the metals.

Li Mo forged a famous sword for Jiang Chulong, then began a second sword using Sharing the Moon to join his will with Ying Bing’s. He melted his Mystic Weapon, the Star Pestle, into the sword blank, leaving the forging still underway.

• Li Mo used repeated hammering, Taiyin quenching, and tempering to forge a wild-grass-patterned longsword with a peach-branch hilt.
• Li Mo gave the completed sword to Jiang Chulong, who felt an immediate bond with it and reluctantly set it aside for the judges.
• Jiang Yu reacted with disbelief at Jiang Chulong holding the sword and muttered that the Sword Bone was clearly with him.
• After finishing first, Li Mo replenished his qi and began forging a second sword, drawing skepticism from spectators and craftsmen.
• Li Mo used Sharing the Moon with Ying Bing, then invoked Law of Heaven and Earth and began melting the Star Pestle into the sword blank.

Li Mo used the Calamity Meteor Hammer and his own forging hammer to forge a sword intended to rival Moon-in-Mid-Autumn. Ying Bing joined him for the final strike, and the completed blade emerged with snowflake-like patterns.

• Li Mo fused the materials from the Star Pestle into the sword blank and revealed a second hammer identical to his original one.
• Nangong Min and the other judges recognized the Calamity Meteor Hammer, a divine weapon ranked forty-seventh, and discussed Li Mo's ability to wield it.
• Li Mo continued forging as the Fallen Star Flame converged on the hammer, while Taiyin linked his Will Soul with Ice Block's.
• Ying Bing joined Li Mo at the anvil and told him that yin arose from the utmost yang.
• Li Mo and Ying Bing swung Hammer Treasure together for the final strike, completing the sword as Taiyin Power cleansed it.

Li Mo completed a supreme famed longsword for Ying Bing, drawing Princess Yuyang's interest in both the sword and its maker. After the weapon-forging contest ended, he discussed a possible defensive technique with Murong Xiao before Princess Yuyang approached him.

• Li Mo finished forging Ying Bing's longsword, and she said she wanted time to choose its name while Little Jiang named her sword Green Leaf.
• Princess Yuyang told Jiang Yu she wanted Ying Bing's sword, then began to take an interest in Li Mo as a man as well.
• The weapon-forging portion ended, and several craftsmen earned Grade A evaluations for their weapons.
• Li Mo reunited with Murong Xiao and suggested he study the sea cucumber race's regeneration ability to strengthen his defense.
• Princess Yuyang approached Li Mo and asked whether he still remembered her.

Princess Yuyang approached Li Mo, but Ying Bing’s sword dance with the newly forged blade stunned the crowd and helped her break through. Ying Bing named the sword Venus and hinted that she and Jiang Chulong had found a way to get Li Mo a weapon for the competition.

• Princess Yuyang tried to get acquainted with Li Mo, who barely remembered her and turned her away.
• Ying Bing began her sword trial and performed a sword dance with the blade Li Mo had forged for her.
• The sword dance astonished the crowd, and Taiyin’s aura flared as Ying Bing broke through.
• Ying Bing named her sword Venus and walked over to Li Mo after finishing the dance.
• Jiang Chulong revealed that she and Ying Bing had asked the white-bearded grandpa at the Sword Mound to find a way to provide Li Mo with a weapon.

Ying Bing broke through in front of the Sword Furnace plaza and summoned the Heavenly Human Divine Sword from Heavenly Human City. She gave the sword to Li Mo, leaving the crowd stunned by what it meant for the upcoming Hidden Dragon Assembly.

• Ying Bing asked Li Mo whether he liked swords and promised to get him a good one.
• Ying Bing broke through and merged her body and Will Soul with moonlight before flying toward the Map of Mountains and Rivers.
• Du Wufeng realized Ying Bing was heading to Heavenly Human City to bring back the Heavenly Human Divine Sword.
• Heavenly Human City appeared within the Map of Mountains and Rivers, and Ying Bing summoned the divine sword into her hand.
• The crowd reacted with disbelief that Ying Bing had obtained the sword before the Hidden Dragon Assembly, while Xie Xuan grew furious at the thought of Li Mo wielding it.

At Sword Mound, the spirit-guarding old man and a middle-aged scholar discussed Ying Bing’s ability to draw the Heavenly Human Divine Sword and the unusual swordsman who might wield it. Ying Bing brought the sword back and gave it to Li Mo, whose grip awakened its resistance until Ying Bing threatened it into accepting him.

• The spirit-guarding old man told the middle-aged scholar that Ying Bing had asked whether she could keep the Heavenly Human Divine Sword if she summoned it.
• The old man revealed that Ying Bing had developed a Sword Bone and had come to find her mother's sword with the little princess.
• The middle-aged scholar activated the Map of Mountains and Rivers, causing Heavenly Human City to appear.
• Ying Bing returned to Sword Furnace Plaza carrying the Heavenly Human Divine Sword and offered it to Li Mo.
• Li Mo touched the sword, but its powerful Sword Qi overwhelmed him until Ying Bing grabbed his wrist and ordered the sword to behave.
• The Heavenly Human Divine Sword reluctantly connected with Li Mo, while Xie Xuan collapsed in despair.

Li Mo drew the Heavenly Human Divine Sword and negotiated permission to use it in the Hidden Dragon Assembly before returning it afterward. After leaving the Weapon Forging Conference, he and Ying Bing got lost on the mountain path, and he sat down to hold her while hoping for sword inspiration.

• Li Mo put away the Heavenly Human Divine Sword, coaxed Hammer Treasure with Ying Bing’s help, and drew Princess Yuyang’s attention.
• Du Wufeng and the others confronted the question of whether Li Mo could use the divine sword, while Xie Xuan and Jiang Yu remained devastated by its selection.
• Li Mo agreed to return the sword after the Hidden Dragon Assembly and to use it only against opponents with divine weapons, and the Sword Villa’s leaders accepted.
• Li Mo left the conference with Ying Bing, noticed the Empty-Bright Myriad-Color Pagoda growing hot, and realized they had taken a wrong turn.
• Li Mo sat by a stream and asked to hold Ying Bing, hoping her sword talent might inspire him.

Li Mo learned that the Heavenly Human Divine Sword grew stronger in his hands as he mastered more sword arts, while Ying Bing teased him before leaving to consolidate her breakthrough. Back at Cloud-Stepping Tower, Li Mo received investment feedback for Jiang Chulong and Ying Bing, including a White Dragon Extreme Form Diagram and the Great Sage’s Golden Chainmail Armor.

• Ying Bing explained that the Heavenly Human Divine Sword could be wielded by anyone and that Li Mo’s ability to learn sword techniques suited it.
• Ying Bing pretended to reinforce Li Mo’s seal, bit his neck, and teased him when he threatened to bite back.
• Ying Bing left to consolidate her cultivation and told Li Mo to establish a connection with the divine sword before the Hidden Dragon Assembly.
• Li Mo returned to Cloud-Stepping Tower and received a White Dragon Extreme Form Diagram from his investment in Jiang Chulong.
• Li Mo received Golden Chainmail Armor from his investment in Ying Bing and went to the Small World to check the Great Sage’s armaments.

Li Mo overcame his fear of the Great Sage Projection and resumed improving his Will Soul, then awakened a vision of the Heavenly Human Divine Sword’s first wielder, Shi Sujun. Her memories revealed the sword’s origins and the purpose she entrusted to it.

• Jiang Chulong defeated the Yellow Dragon Projection with the Green Leaf Sword, advancing her Dragon-Slaying Sword Art and earning Yellow Dragon essence blood for Li Mo.
• Li Mo faced the Great Sage Projection again and realized that fear had magnified its presence; once he stopped fearing it, he endured four moves and his Will Soul began to grow.
• After dawn, Li Mo took up the Heavenly Human Divine Sword, whose intent awakened a vision of Shi Sujun, its first wielder.
• Shi Sujun recalled that the sword had formed from the wills of fallen warriors’ weapons in the Sword Mound, and she left it in the Heavenly Human Realm to gather the sword intent of future heroes and one day cleave the darkness.

Li Mo mastered the mysterious Wuchang Post sword technique in an instant by using thirty years of martial arts insights, then wondered whether his remaining insights would be enough to learn the Heavenly Human Divine Sword’s other inheritances. At lunch, Qin Yuzhi described a dream about a man who died while eating Heavenly Venerable instant noodles, and Li Mo realized the man was Lu Zhuang.

• Li Mo witnessed the Heavenly Human Divine Sword’s inheritance of Wuchang Post, the sole sword technique of a former second-ranked Drizzle Pavilion killer.
• Li Mo used thirty years of martial arts insights to reach minor mastery of Wuchang Post, surprising the sword intent and improving his Nine Swords of Dugu attainment.
• After spending three hundred years of insights on several sword techniques, Li Mo came downstairs and wondered whether his remaining seventeen hundred years could cover the divine sword’s inheritances.
• Qin Yuzhi told Li Mo that a dreamwalker had died in a dream filled with Heavenly Venerable instant noodles, and she described the man as skinny but strong while eating them.
• Li Mo recognized the dead man as Lu Zhuang and asked Qin Yuzhi where he had died.

Li Mo and his companions found Lu Zhuang dead in a poor district of the Imperial Capital, apparently drained by Divine Strength Powder. Disguised as Demon Summoning Cult members to wait for Lu Zhuang’s supplier, they were mistaken for cultists by a female constable and fought her instead.

• Li Mo, Xiao Qin, Murong Xiao, and Huang Donglai followed Qin Yuzhi’s dream butterfly to a shabby house and found Lu Zhuang’s corpse.
• Xiao Qin and Huang Donglai determined that Lu Zhuang had died after his vitality and blood were drained, while a rat that ate his flesh grew unusually large.
• Li Mo reasoned that Lu Zhuang had been selling Divine Strength Powder for the Demon Summoning Cult and suggested waiting for his supplier to appear.
• Li Mo produced black robes and a token identifying him as a Hundred Beasts Divine Envoy, and the group disguised themselves as cult members.
• A female constable burst in and attacked the group, mistaking their disguise for proof that they belonged to the Demon Summoning Cult.
• Huang Donglai fought the constable, and Li Mo ordered his companions to subdue her after Muscle-Softening Powder made her dizzy.

Li Mo and his companions freed Zhao Jing and convinced her they were investigating the Demon Summoning Cult, then followed a cult contact toward his stronghold. Ying Bing got lost while looking for a secluded place to use the Tribulation Body Jade, and her Taiyin Will Soul message reached Li Mo at the worst possible moment.

• Li Mo recognized the captive Zhao Jing as a Northern Suburbs head constable and had Xiao Qin wake her so they could explain themselves.
• Li Mo revealed his identity and explained why the group had posed as Demon Summoning Cult members, and Zhao Jing agreed to join their investigation.
• The group spotted a peddler from the Blood Refinement Hall and earned his trust so he would lead them to the cult's stronghold.
• Ying Bing set out to use the Tribulation Body Jade but got lost in streets named after Li Mo and activated Sharing the Moon.
• Ying Bing's Taiyin Will Soul message interrupted Li Mo and the others just as the peddler was preparing to take them to the stronghold.

Li Mo and his companions followed a Blood Refinement Hall peddler to a hidden workshop producing Divine Strength Powder from human remains. When the peddler pressured them to eat the powder, Li Mo refused and drew the Crimson Firmament Sword, leaving the group on the brink of a fight.

• Li Mo claimed his Divine Intent had been released because the Blood Refinement Hall’s secrecy had delayed his order, and the peddler led him and his companions to a hidden temple.
• The peddler opened a passage beneath the Buddha statue and brought Li Mo, Zhao Jing, Murong Xiao, Huang Donglai, and Xiao Qin into the underground workshop.
• Li Mo watched the peddler throw Lu Zhuang’s corpse into a furnace and process it into Divine Strength Powder for Heavenly Venerable Brand Instant Noodles.
• The peddler offered the group the powder and pressed them to taste it, while Blood Refinement Hall members surrounded them with weapons.
• Li Mo refused to eat the human-derived powder and drew the Crimson Firmament Sword as his companions prepared to fight.

Tan Zhuyin and a Yin-Yang Hall disciple met with the Blood Refinement Hall to arrange false identities for the Hidden Dragon Assembly, but learned Zhao Jing had arrived with four unusual Third Realm fighters. Meanwhile, Ying Bing activated the Tribulation Body Jade in a ruined temple, and the first layer of her lightning tribulation began.

• The Blood Refinement Hall’s Hall Master offered Tan Zhuyin and the Yin-Yang Hall disciple identities belonging to Qu Songyun and Zhao Jing, who were both women.
• The Yin-Yang Hall disciple demonstrated that he could disguise himself as Qu Songyun, while Tan Zhuyin demanded a male identity instead.
• A cultist reported that Zhao Jing had brought four helpers who had defeated the Blood Refinement Hall’s fighters and killed its Inner Scene helmsman.
• The Hall Master entered a wall of flesh to confront the intruders.
• Ying Bing went to a ruined temple, prepared herself, and activated the Tribulation Body Jade.
• Black clouds gathered as the first layer of Ying Bing’s lightning tribulation began.