Recaps

Qin Guan killed the Zhao Family patriarch and his guards at Zuixiang Tower, then the noblewoman summoned Blade Saint Xie Baoqing’s clone. Xie Baoqing confronted Qin Guan after learning that his grandson had been struck.

• The Zhao Family patriarch ordered his guards to seize Qin Guan, but Qin Guan killed the attackers and wounded the patriarch before he could act.
• Jiang Lianyue recognized Qin Guan and hoped he would soon defeat Mad Saber Xie Baoqing and obtain an Earth-tier saber technique to heal her scar.
• The noblewoman activated the Zhao Family’s pendant, summoning a clone of Blade Saint Xie Baoqing as diners panicked.
• Qin Guan told the diners to stay and watch the fight, insisting he could handle a Star Realm expert.
• Xie Baoqing’s clone appeared, and the noblewoman’s grandson identified Qin Guan as the one who had struck him.

Qin Guan threatened Xie Baoqing and used his Life Gate to restore Yang Hongmei’s severed thigh and heal Shang Zhuang and his companions. He left Zhao Falun’s family drained and aged, with the Human Stick Youth dead.

• Qin Guan threatened Xie Baoqing and challenged him to come to Qingzhou’s imperial capital the next day.
• Qin Guan took Zhao Falun and his family, then reassured Nan Qiao that Yang Hongmei’s thigh could be restored.
• Qin Guan opened his Life Gate and drew vitality from Zhao Falun’s family and nearby diners to heal Yang Hongmei and Shang Zhuang’s companions.
• Qin Guan closed the Life Gate after Yang Hongmei’s thigh and the others’ limbs had regenerated.
• The Human Stick Youth died, while Zhao Falun’s family was left frail and aged.

After accidentally destroying Man Yi’s house while rushing to save Nan Rou, Qin Guan went to apologize and tried to secure Man Yi’s help. Man Yi agreed on one condition: Qin Guan had to kill Blade Saint Xie Baoqing.

• Qin Guan reassured Nan Rou that opening the Life Gate had not seriously harmed him and urged her to use the Xuanming Mirror when she was in danger.
• Jiang Lianyue arrived covered in dust and told Qin Guan that he had torn down Man Yi’s house while rushing to help Nan Rou.
• Nan Rou urged Qin Guan to visit Man Yi because the old man had nowhere to sleep in the cold, and Qin Guan went to West City.
• Man Yi attacked Qin Guan with his Great Iron Hammer, but he could not land a blow.
• Man Yi said he would help Qin Guan if Qin Guan killed someone, then named Blade Saint Xie Baoqing.

Emperor Suqing learned that Qin Guan was a Sixth Realm Martial Cultivator and plotted to use the Spirit Sword Academy’s headmaster selection and the Blade Saint’s challenge to destroy him. As factions gathered for the day’s events, Qin Guan ate breakfast at Zuixiang Tower with Nan Rou, Nan Qiao, and a frightened, recovering Yang Hongmei.

• A Shadow Guard reported that Qin Guan had defeated Madam Zhao’s clone, killed the Zhao Family head’s son, taken the family’s Life Force, and agreed to fight Xie Baoqing.
• Emperor Suqing learned Qin Guan had reached the Sixth Realm and decided to use Shen Huan’s appointment as headmaster to turn gathered factions against him.
• Emperor Suqing ordered Guo Huai to take thirty Shadow Guards to the Nan Family in Luyun City, assess its defenses, and leave no one alive.
• The next morning, crowds gathered at the Spirit Sword Academy for the headmaster selection and at Zuixiang Tower to watch Qin Guan face Xie Baoqing.
• Qin Guan had breakfast with Nan Rou, Nan Qiao, and the mostly recovered Yang Hongmei, who was frightened after learning about the coming fight.

Cao Zhengchun punished Bai Wanjian for making peace with Qin Guan, but Bai rejected the punishment and left the Spirit Sword Academy rather than become Cao’s pawn. Shen Huan and several prominent families prepared to confront Qin Guan at Zuixiang Tower, where Blade Saint Xie Baoqing was also expected.

• Cao Zhengchun announced that the Spirit Sword Academy had punished Bai Wanjian for seeking peace with Qin Guan and ordered him to remain at the academy under punishment.
• Bai Wanjian refused to accept the decision, resigned from the Spirit Sword Academy, and flew away, intending to join Qin Guan rather than serve Cao Zhengchun’s schemes.
• Shen Huan praised Bai’s departure and accepted Cao Zhengchun’s confidence to lead the Qingzhou Spirit Sword Academy.
• Shen Huan urged Cao Zhengchun to confront Qin Guan at Zuixiang Tower, and the Xu, Shangguan, Sun, and Zhang families offered to join them.
• The crowd learned that Blade Saint Xie Baoqing was heading to Zuixiang Tower to kill Qin Guan and urged Cao Zhengchun to hurry.

Qin Guan confronted a large force of experts who had come to settle the score with him and slaughtered most of them, including Shen Huan. Cao Zhengchun and Li Wanqi escaped and decided to return to Central Province to report Qin Guan’s overwhelming strength.

• Qin Guan introduced Bai Wanjian to Nan Rou, Yang Hongmei, Nan Qiao, and Jiang Lianyue, then went downstairs to face the incoming Spirit Sword Academy forces.
• Shen Huan challenged Qin Guan, who offered him a chance to leave before punching through his body and killing him.
• Qin Guan swept through the attackers with his Fist Gang Qi, leaving corpses in the plaza and driving the surviving forces to flee.
• Cao Zhengchun and Li Wanqi escaped, concluded that Qin Guan had Seventh Realm strength, and agreed to report him to Central Province.

Qin Guan captured Xie Baoqing and brought him to Man Yi, who tortured him for revenge over his wife, Yue Yi. Xie Baoqing revealed that he had killed their master, while Man Yi prepared a rusty saber.

• After Xie Baoqing vanished during his clash with Qin Guan, Cao Zhengchun and Li Wanqi decided to investigate Qin Guan and return to Central Province.
• Jiang Fengtian and Bai Wanjian wondered where Xie Baoqing had gone as Jiang Lianyue questioned why Qin Guan had rushed west.
• Qin Guan arrived at Man Yi’s residence and threw the captured Xie Baoqing onto the ground.
• Man Yi furiously hammered Xie Baoqing until Qin Guan warned that he was close to death, then Man Yi gave him pills to keep him alive.
• Man Yi dragged Xie Baoqing to Yue Yi’s memorial tablet, where Xie Baoqing admitted he had killed their master and blamed his actions on their master’s favoritism.
• Man Yi ignored Xie Baoqing’s pleas and sharpened a rusty saber.

Yang Tiansong’s family sought Yang Hongmei’s help in reconciling with Qin Guan, while Emperor Suqing panicked over the Shadow Guards he had sent to the Nan Family. At the Cloud Mist Sect, elders discovered that Xie Baoqing had died and found a baffling record of his final moments.

• Yang Muming and Yang Tiansong urged Yang Hongmei to plead with Qin Guan and help the Yang Family, and she agreed.
• Emperor Suqing learned that Qin Guan had killed the forces near Zuixiang Tower and worried that Guo Huai and thirty Shadow Guards could no longer be recalled.
• Emperor Suqing summoned a Shadow Guard and ordered him to bring someone to the Imperial Study.
• A Cloud Mist Sect disciple told the silver-haired Grand Elder that Xie Baoqing’s Soul Lamp had gone out, and the Grand Elder rushed to the Soul Hall to confirm his death.
• The Grand Elder viewed the image stone’s record of Xie Baoqing’s death and found that it showed him disappearing after one exchange with Qin Guan before dying again in an abandoned courtyard.

After killing Shen Huan, Qin Guan spoke with Jiang Lianyue while the Shen Family debated whether to seek revenge or wait for their Old Ancestor. That night, Qin Guan appeared in Emperor Suqing’s Imperial Study to confront the emperor over the Dragon Cloud Empire’s secret schemes against him.

• The Little Black Tower urged Qin Guan to dominate Jiang Lianyue, but Qin Guan rejected its advice and kept Man Yi’s change of heart secret.
• Jiang Lianyue asked Qin Guan whether he had killed Xie Baoqing and how he had handled Man Yi, then left after misinterpreting his answer about a secret between men.
• The Shen Family leaders argued over revenge against Qin Guan, and Shen Chongyang ordered them to stand down and said he would resign when the Old Ancestor returned.
• After learning that the Dragon Cloud Empire had secretly plotted against him, Qin Guan appeared before Emperor Suqing in the Imperial Study.

Qin Guan killed Emperor Suqing in the Imperial Study after rejecting the emperor’s threats, plunging the Dragon Cloud Empire into a succession crisis. Jiang Fengtian explained that he resigned as Grand Pavilion Master to avoid becoming Qin Guan’s enemy, while Li Wanqi warned that the conflict could no longer be stopped.

• Qin Guan killed a eunuch who tried to call for guards, overpowered Emperor Suqing, and mocked his claims of imperial power.
• Qin Guan rejected Emperor Suqing’s warnings about the empire’s allies and the chaos his death might cause, then beheaded him.
• The Imperial Capital City erupted into turmoil the next morning as the Imperial Family and the princes’ factions turned their attention to the vacant Dragon Throne.
• Li Wanqi confronted Jiang Fengtian about resigning as Grand Pavilion Master of the Qingzhou Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• Jiang Fengtian said he had resigned to avoid becoming Qin Guan’s enemy and urged Li Wanqi to stop opposing him, but Li Wanqi said the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion and Spirit Sword Academy would not let Qin Guan go.

Shen Xuanjing defeated Guo Huai with his Sword Domain, then learned that his grandson Shen Huan had been killed by Qin Guan and feared the Shen Family had ruined its chances. In Imperial Capital City, Qin Guan carried a tired Nan Rou home, then received compensation and business earnings from Shang Zhuang.

• Guo Huai attacked Shen Xuanjing with Instant Shadow Slash, but Shen Xuanjing revealed his Sword Domain and inflicted a fatal wound.
• As he died, Guo Huai told Shen Xuanjing that Qin Guan had killed Shen Huan after Shen Huan became a Sword Venerable and rallied forces against him.
• Shen Xuanjing worried that the Shen Family had offended Qin Guan and blamed his family for turning a good situation into a disaster.
• Qin Guan and Nan Rou strolled through Imperial Capital City, and Nan Rou asked Qin Guan to carry her home on his back.
• Shang Zhuang reported that thirteen families had paid 450 spirit stones in compensation and that Lichun Courtyard and Dark Dragon Arena had earned twenty-five million gold coins in three months.
• Qin Guan dismissed the amount as too little, surprising Shang Zhuang.

Shen Xuanjing returned to the Imperial Capital after breaking through to Sword Emperor and reported that the Nan Family had survived the Dragon Cloud Empire’s attack. Qin Guan prepared to return to Luyun City, sent Shen Xuanjing to deliver a challenge to Tang Ye and Xiao Biehe, and tempted Bai Wanjian and Jiang Fengtian with future rewards for their help.

• Shen Xuanjing knelt before Qin Guan, apologized for failing him, and explained that Guo Huai and thirty shadow guards had attacked the Nan Family.
• Shen Xuanjing assured Nan Rou that the Nan Family had suffered no casualties and had killed all the attackers.
• Qin Guan told Shen Xuanjing to return home, then asked him to challenge Tang Ye and Xiao Biehe to meet him in Luyun City.
• Shen Xuanjing flew to the Shen Family, while Bai Wanjian and Jiang Fengtian asked to return to Luyun City with Qin Guan.
• Qin Guan promised Bai Wanjian and Jiang Fengtian they could name their rewards after finding the information he sought.

Shen Xuanjing punished Shen Chongyang for Shen Huan’s death but then let him go home to recover. Meanwhile, Qin Guan’s group was ambushed in the sky, and Qin Guan turned the attackers’ crossbow bolts against them, destroying three Cloud Ships.

• Shen Xuanjing stripped Shen Chongyang of the Family Head position and ordered him to receive thirty lashes and kneel in the ancestral hall for half a year.
• Shen Chongyang lamented Shen Huan’s death, but Shen Xuanjing blamed Shen Huan’s arrogance for bringing danger upon the Shen Family and then dismissed Shen Chongyang to recuperate at home.
• Jiang Lianyue stopped the Cloud Ship as six enemy Cloud Ships surrounded it and fired Heavy Octagonal Crossbows.
• Jiang Lianyue accelerated and evaded the bolts while Qin Guan intercepted the shots aimed at their ship.
• When the enemy Cloud Ships swooped to attack from below, Qin Guan hurled three bolts at them and blew up three Cloud Ships.

Qin Guan hurled more than ten hills from a distant mountain forest into the Imperial Palace to punish the Su Family, leaving a towering mound in the capital. Three days later, he returned to the Nan Family with Man Yi, an Artifact Refining Master, and introduced him to Nan Yunqi and the others.

• Qin Guan stopped the Cloud Ship and threw more than ten hills toward the Imperial Capital, astonishing everyone aboard.
• The hills crashed into the Imperial Palace’s main square, causing widespread destruction and panic while leaving a towering mound in the city.
• The Empress Dowager ordered the empire to recall its talented people and prepare for Qin Guan, while Central Province advised against rash action.
• Three days later, Qin Guan’s group returned to the Nan Family, where Nan Yunqi asked how the trip had gone.
• Qin Guan introduced Man Yi as an Artifact Refining Master, and Nan Yunqi and the others greeted him respectfully.

Tang Ye emerged from seclusion and learned that Qin Guan had insulted Spirit Sword Academy and killed Emperor Suqing, then discussed the threat with Xiao Biehe. Meanwhile, Qin Guan began sparring with the Netherworld Dog inside the Little Black Tower.

• Tang Ye came out of seclusion and heard Cao Zhengchun recount Qin Guan’s actions and present him with a fabricated Challenge Letter.
• Tang Ye flew into a rage, destroyed the letter with his Sword Momentum, and accidentally blasted Cao Zhengchun away.
• Xiao Biehe told Tang Ye that Qin Guan had also insulted him and might be a Seventh Realm Martial Cultivator, while Xie Baoqing remained in seclusion with his Soul Lamp burning brightly.
• Xiao Biehe revealed that Qin Guan had killed Emperor Suqing, and Tang Ye urged him to join Spirit Sword Academy in opposing Qin Guan.
• Qin Guan used a wisp of Chaos Qi to enlist the Netherworld Dog as his sparring partner in the Little Black Tower.

Qin Guan cultivated the Huan Yuan Sword Art and learned that the Zhu Qin Alliance was approaching Luyun City to target him. He ordered everyone in the Household to evacuate to Myriad Monster Valley as he prepared to ambush the alliance.

• Qin Guan told the Netherworld Dog that he had found the Sword Skill on the Little Black Tower's third floor, then declined another sparring session.
• Qin Guan cultivated for two days, opening eighty-eight Acupoints as he worked toward mastering the incomplete Huan Yuan Sword Art.
• A Black Robe Man told Qin Guan that Sword Saint Tang Ye and Xiao Biehe had set out and that the Zhu Qin Alliance was expected to reach Luyun City within a day.
• Qin Guan told the Black Robe Man not to alert the alliance and said he intended to wipe them out in one fell swoop.
• Qin Guan told Nan Yunqi to send everyone in the Household, including the servants, to Myriad Monster Valley that afternoon.

The Zhu Qin Alliance marched into Luyun City to hunt Qin Guan and the Nan Family, and Chen Guangling led its forces into Myriad Monster Valley. The Fifth Order Bear King fled in terror and was killed by a sudden sword strike, leaving the alliance facing an unknown threat.

• Chen Guangling told the Zhu Qin Alliance that Qin Guan and the Nan Family had hidden in Myriad Monster Valley, then led more than three thousand cultivators after them.
• Luyun City’s family factions cheered the alliance’s departure, hoping the Nan Family would be destroyed.
• The cultivators followed the Nan Family’s trail into the valley and found no Demonic Beasts or birds along the way.
• The Xu Family’s Fifth Order Bear King trembled with fear, broke free from its chain, and ran.
• A streak of sword light pierced the fleeing Bear King through the brow, killing it.

Qin Guan used the Netherworld Dog to capture Tang Ye and Xiao Biehe and take their Storage Bags, then confronted the Zhu Qin Alliance while a Black Robe Man stood guard. After Qin Guan killed a disciple who called for the Sword Saint, several Fifth Realm Cultivators tried to flee.

• Qin Guan lured Tang Ye and Xiao Biehe into the Netherworld Dog’s ambush, and the dog seized their Storage Bags and swallowed their Divine Souls.
• Qin Guan returned to the Zhu Qin Alliance while the Black Robe Man’s presence kept its members from moving.
• Qin Guan blasted a path through the crowd and demanded that the alliance surrender its Storage Bags or die.
• A Spirit Sword Academy disciple called for the Sword Saint, and Qin Guan killed him when Tang Ye and Xiao Biehe did not appear.
• Several Fifth Realm Cultivators took to the air and tried to flee.

Qin Guan fought the woman in white over the spoils he had taken, but she overwhelmed him with her strength. After admitting defeat, he handed over the Storage Bags from the two Seventh Realm cultivators.

• Nan Yunqi and the others retreated to base camp as Qin Guan faced the woman in white.
• The woman in white sent Qin Guan crashing through trees and into a mountain with a single punch.
• Qin Guan unleashed his Shocking Gate and fought back, but the woman in white broke through his Spatial Barriers and kicked him into the ground.
• Little Black Tower warned Qin Guan that the woman was a Ninth Realm Dao Integration expert and that opening the Killing Gate would be dangerous.
• Qin Guan admitted defeat, and the woman in white demanded the two Storage Bags he had taken from Seventh Realm cultivators.
• Qin Guan realized the woman had been watching him and tossed her the bags.

Qin Guan cultivated after discussing his growing enemies with Little Black Tower, who realized it had become responsible for protecting him. Meanwhile, Spirit Sword Academy’s headquarters investigated Qin Guan but could not identify his origins, leaving academy head Gu Jinyan wary of acting against him.

• Qin Guan told Little Black Tower that he was unafraid because he could rely on it for backup.
• Little Black Tower reflected that Qin Guan’s fearless temperament came from his master’s harsh but deliberate teaching, then began healing while Qin Guan cultivated.
• Seven days later, a middle-aged man reported to Gu Jinyan that Spirit Sword Academy had found no record of anyone named Qin Guan.
• Gu Jinyan reviewed the losses and disappearances caused by Qin Guan and worried that Qin Guan’s unknown backers might be beyond the Academy’s reach.
• Gu Jinyan warned the middle-aged man against rash moves and said the matter was not simple.

Qin Guan opened all One Hundred and Eight Acupoints and formed a Sword Meridian, then learned that the White Clad Madwoman was Bai You, a powerful Ninth Realm cultivator from Qingfeng Pavilion. The chapter ended with Nan Rou reporting that she was close to breaking through to the Fourth Realm as Qin Guan checked her foundation.

• Qin Guan completed the One Hundred and Eight Acupoints and formed a Sword Meridian that transformed his Spiritual Power into Sword Qi.
• Qin Guan combined the Sword Qi with his True Dragon Sword Intent, then continued cultivating until evening.
• The Black Robe Man delivered 1,220 spirit stones from the Eight Treasures Tower's sales and gave Qin Guan an itemized list.
• The Black Robe Man identified the White Clad Madwoman as Bai You, the Ninth Realm Pavilion Master of Qingfeng Pavilion in Divine Continent.
• Nan Rou told Qin Guan she had nearly consolidated her Third Realm foundation and planned to break through to the Fourth Realm, so Qin Guan examined her foundation.

Bai You accepted twenty thousand spirit stones from Sima Qing and Gu Jinyan to kill Qin Guan, then confronted him at Myriad Monster Valley. Qin Guan agreed to settle the fight with one punch and opened all Eight Gates as their battle began.

• Sima Qing and Gu Jinyan paid Bai You ten thousand spirit stones upfront to take Qin Guan's head, promising the rest after the job.
• Bai You traveled to Luyun City, where the Netherworld Dog recognized the Purple Gold Gourd she carried but did not stop her.
• The Little Black Tower warned Qin Guan that Bai You had arrived, and Qin Guan left Nan Rou to meet her.
• Bai You told Qin Guan that someone had hired her to kill him, and he challenged her to fight at Myriad Monster Valley.
• Bai You said she could suppress Qin Guan's blood and qi so he could unleash his strongest strike, and Qin Guan opened all Eight Gates for their one-punch duel.

Qin Guan crushed a Jade Pendant to summon his Senior Sister, only to discover that his enemy Bai You was the one it brought to him. After learning they were master’s senior and junior disciples, they settled their conflict with ten thousand spirit stones, leaving Qin Guan to accept Bai You’s apology and payment.

• Qin Guan crushed the Jade Pendant to summon his Senior Sister while Bai You waited to fight her.
• A Spatial Formation transported Bai You to Qin Guan, and they realized they were master’s senior and junior disciples.
• Little Black Tower confirmed he had not known about Bai You because he had spent most of his time asleep healing a Dao Injury.
• Bai You apologized for fighting Qin Guan and offered to let him hit her, while Little Black Tower urged him to take advantage of the offer.
• Qin Guan demanded the return of his stolen belongings, and Bai You gave him ten thousand spirit stones from the bounty on his life.
• Qin Guan accepted the spirit stones and said he forgave Bai You.

Qin Guan and Bai You raided the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, leaving it empty and its master Sima Qing dead. As the Divine Continent searched for the culprits, Spirit Sword Academy's Gu Jinyan suspected Bai You and the mysterious person behind Qin Guan were involved.

• Qin Guan persuaded Bai You to raid the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion to repay the five hundred thousand spirit stones she owed the Chu Family, and Bai You gave him a Dog Head Mask.
• Bai You silently knocked out the Pavilion's guards while Qin Guan stored its shelves in Little Black Tower, and they escaped after emptying the building.
• The next morning, the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion's managers found the building stripped bare and Pavilion Master Sima Qing dead, sparking rumors across the Divine Continent.
• Gu Jinyan learned that Bai You was safe and heard that two Formation Guards at teleportation arrays in Central Province and Qingzhou had also been killed.
• Gu Jinyan and his advisers speculated that Bai You had revealed Sima Qing's plot to the person behind Qin Guan, who then killed Sima Qing, and they worried about whether Qin Guan was still alive.

Qin Guan continued cultivating while the Nan Family prospered, and Bai You arrived to warn him that the Divine Continent might act against him. The chapter left Qin Guan and Bai You reunited as senior sister and junior brother, while Netherworld Dog politely acknowledged their relationship.

• The Divine Continent Family Head ordered his people to eliminate Qingfeng Pavilion and demanded results on the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion investigation within three days.
• Qin Guan refined his One Hundred and Eight Acupoints and strengthened his Sword Meridian using the spirit stones and goods taken from the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• Nan Yunqi counted the Nan Family’s growing wealth as its mining and other enterprises flourished.
• Bai You appeared at the Nan Family compound and told Nan Yunqi that Qin Guan was her Junior Brother.
• Bai You warned Qin Guan that the Divine Continent had found clues and might move against him, and Qin Guan said their clash had been inevitable.
• Bai You apologized to Netherworld Dog for offending it, then explained that she was Qin Guan’s Senior Sister.