Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan studied Chaotic Sword Hall’s techniques and used his demonic arts title to devise an improved spiritual-energy engine powered by negative emotions. He then planned to seek investment and visit the remnants of Juque Sect and Imperial Sword Gate, leaving Ji Ming afraid that Su Yuan would swallow up his friends’ sects.

• Su Yuan demanded Chaotic Sword Hall’s core flying sword modification techniques, and Ji Ming handed over the sect’s stored designs.
• Su Yuan found Chaotic Sword Hall’s unfinished Self-absorbing Spiritual Energy Engine and learned that a failed racing module had contributed to the sect’s bankruptcy.
• Su Yuan used his Speedrun title to discover that he could complete the engine by combining it with Fury Heart Attack and a Devil Talisman.
• Su Yuan decided to seek investment from Evil Slaying Sword Sect and asked Ji Ming where Juque Sect and Imperial Sword Gate’s remnants could be found.
• Taihua Yu Xi offered to lead Su Yuan to the two sects, and Ji Ming reluctantly agreed to accompany them.

Su Yuan united the remnants of Chaotic Sword Hall, Juque Sect, and Imperial Sword Gate to develop a self-absorbing spiritual energy engine, then persuaded Taihua Tianji to secure approval and investment. Taihua Tianji realized Su Yuan had been behind the three sects’ merger and furiously demanded that he come, while unknowingly breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Su Yuan convinced Wan Ningxiang to make Juque Sect a contract manufacturer for Yuan Sect and made the drunken Huang Yunzhou kneel before recruiting him to test the new engine.
• Su Yuan absorbed the remaining forces of Chaotic Sword Hall, Juque Sect, and Imperial Sword Gate, and Zhang Baiyi deciphered the Devil Talisman for the engine design.
• Su Yuan summoned Ji Ming, Wan Ningxiang, and Huang Yunzhou to plan how to secure approval and funding for mass production.
• Taihua Tianji agreed to help the three sects obtain approval and investment after reviewing their engine blueprints, but realized the technology bore Su Yuan’s distinctive style.
• Ji Ming accidentally revealed Su Yuan’s involvement, and Taihua Tianji angrily demanded that they call Su Yuan while unknowingly breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Taihua Tianji explained that Evil Slaying Sword Sect’s students joined campaigns to conquer worlds ruled by demonic cults, and Su Yuan learned why the sect wanted a large share of his spirit-energy engines. Within three days, Yuan Sect became an affiliated sect of Evil Slaying Sword Sect.

• Taihua Tianji agreed to push for approval and investment in Su Yuan’s spirit-energy engine, requesting at least thirty percent of its production for Evil Slaying Sword Sect.
• Taihua Tianji revealed that Evil Slaying Sword Sect’s year-end assessments involved conquering a Small World, a Middle World, and a Great World, and Su Yuan realized he was being steered toward the battlefield.
• Taihua Tianji described the four outward-expanding Immortal Sects and explained that the Federation targeted worlds ruled by demonic cults, while the Federal Army defended against major threats.
• Zhu Qingqing told Su Yuan that the Ancient Cultivation World had once spanned the Star Sea and likely shattered into countless worlds during the Age of Dharma’s End.
• Within three days, Yuan Sect officially became an affiliated sect of Evil Slaying Sword Sect.

After Yuan Sect became an affiliated sect of the Evil Slaying Sword Sect, Su Yuan claimed the Holy Sect Blood Sacrifice Array and used it to summon a being from another world. The array brought Qi Hanyua to Ten Immortal City, and Su Yuan tried to charge her one million for the trip.

• Su Yuan expanded Yuan Sect's business in Ten Immortal City and received official proof that it had joined the Evil Slaying Sword Sect as an affiliated sect.
• Su Yuan claimed the Holy Sect Blood Sacrifice Array reward and assembled the Yuan Sect executives to witness his first ritual.
• Su Yuan activated the array using the blood in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, summoning a human-shaped figure from another world.
• The summoned figure turned out to be Qi Hanyua, who recognized Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi and feared they would kill her to hide the illegal ritual.
• Qi Hanyua learned she had been brought to Ten Immortal City, and Su Yuan offered to charge her one million for saving her five million in travel expenses.

Su Yuan’s second Blood Sacrifice Array summoning brought forth a sealed Xuanji Demonic Sword that drained the Eight Treasures Merit Pool and threatened his companions. After it accepted his offer to serve as a sect treasure, the sword claimed to have made him its slave, but Su Yuan received a plan to suppress it by making it his Natal Flying Sword and absorbing its demonic aura.

• Su Yuan activated the Blood Sacrifice Array again, and a black ancient sword appeared and drained the remaining water from the Eight Treasures Merit Pool.
• The Crimson Origin Sword revealed that the black sword was sealed and had no more than Foundation Establishment-level power, while Su Yuan suspected it had answered the summoning on its own.
• Su Yuan used Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Artifact to raise the sword’s favorability as it rose and dispelled attacks from Ji Ming, Wan Ningxiang, and Huang Yunzhou.
• Su Yuan offered the sword a place as a sect-suppressing treasure and the possibility of breaking its seal, so it stopped targeting Ji Ming and offered him its hilt.
• The Xuanji Demonic Sword claimed its aura had made Su Yuan its Sword Slave, but Su Yuan absorbed the aura and received a plan to make it his Natal Flying Sword.

Su Yuan tricked the Xuan Ji Demonic Sword into becoming his Natal Flying Sword, then used his Senluo Spiritual Root to drain and restrain it. He left the sword bound in his dantian, intending to control it and draw on its power as he grew stronger.

• Su Yuan decided to bind the sealed Xuan Ji Demonic Sword as his Natal Flying Sword, and the sword accepted, believing the bond would make him its slave.
• As the Xuan Ji Demonic Sword entered Su Yuan's body, it discovered that its demonic energy was gone and tried to escape.
• Su Yuan's Senluo Spiritual Root ensnared the sword and drained its remaining demonic energy, strengthening his Dao Foundation and advancing his cultivation.
• Su Yuan kept the sword bound in his dantian but resolved to stay wary of its influence and eventually make it empower him.
• Chen Nuoyi and the others worried that Su Yuan had been forced to submit, until Taihua Yu Xi revealed that he had trapped the sword.

Su Yuan’s Yuan Sect expanded its Spiritual Energy Engine business and prepared for the start of university while he advanced to the second layer of Foundation Establishment. Just before the freshmen arrived, Taihua Tianji formed his Nascent Soul and became True Lord Zhan Yuan.

• Su Yuan reassured the Crimson Origin Sword that it remained irreplaceable, then decided to postpone further blood sacrifices and continue searching for new worlds gradually.
• Juque Factory began producing Self-absorbing Spiritual Energy Engines, and Yuan Sect’s advertising and first store drove booming sales among Sword Cultivators.
• Yuan Sect gained members as Su Yuan and his friends finalized their university placements, including Su Yuan and Qi Hanyua in Evil Slaying University’s Evil Slaying Department.
• Su Yuan heard that a Holy Son would join Evil Slaying University and advanced to the second layer of Foundation Establishment on August 25.
• As Su Yuan and his friends prepared for school, Taihua Tianji formed his Nascent Soul and was registered as the federation’s 283rd Nascent Soul, True Lord Zhan Yuan.

Taihua Tianji and Yang Hao True Lord competed for Evil Slaying University’s Deputy Director position through their teaching results, with Su Yuan and the Heavenly Heart Holy Son emerging as their strongest prospective students. Su Yuan arrived at the university town with his companions just as the Holy Son made a dramatic entrance.

• Yang Hao True Lord announced that he would teach in the Evil Slaying Department and compete with Taihua Tianji for the Deputy Director position.
• The Heavenly Heart Holy Son, the third son of Nine Saints True Lord, chose the Evil Slaying Department and Yang Hao True Lord as his instructor, strengthening Yang Hao’s candidacy.
• Su Yuan formed a livestreaming group with Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, and Xiao Kong to promote Yuan Sect’s products while avoiding claims about whether he could surpass the Holy Son.
• On August 31, Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, and Xiao Kong traveled to Evil Slaying University Town and drew attention as four of the school’s few Foundation Establishment freshmen.
• A luxurious Flying Boat bearing the words “Heavenly Heart” descended at the freshman registration area, announcing the arrival of the Heavenly Heart Holy Son.

Su Yuan met Chi Lean, the friendly-seeming Heavenly Heart Holy Son whom his system revealed to be a dangerous devilish talent who breaks close relationships to cultivate his sword dao. After Su Yuan reluctantly agreed to be friends with Chi Lean, he discovered they would be roommates for the next four years.

• Chi Lean arrived at the university, and Qi Hanyua warned Su Yuan that he was a lunatic she had known since kindergarten.
• Su Yuan's system revealed Chi Lean's twisted nature and his habit of destroying bonds with friends and family to advance his Heavenly Heart Sword Dao.
• Qi Hanyua recalled how Chi Lean befriended their kindergarten class, then chased everyone with a toy flying sword and cut her arm.
• Chi Lean approached Su Yuan and asked to be friends, and Su Yuan accepted despite fearing what the friendship might bring.
• Su Yuan registered and went to his dorm, where Chi Lean appeared and announced they would be roommates for four years.

Su Yuan confronted Chi Lean over Qi Hanyua’s accusation, but learned that Chi Lean had injured their kindergarten classmates to save them from hallucinogenic gas. After attending Evil Slaying University’s opening ceremony and spending a peaceful first night with Chi Lean, Su Yuan learned that military training awaited him.

• Su Yuan accused Chi Lean of injuring his kindergarten classmates, but Chi Lean explained that he had used his Toy Flying Sword to save them from a hallucinogenic mushroom and an exploding furnace.
• Su Yuan summoned Qi Hanyua and Zhu Tianqing, and Demon Refining True Lord confirmed Chi Lean’s account, leaving the two Saintesses frightened and Chi Lean’s name cleared.
• Su Yuan apologized to Chi Lean, who settled into their dorm, though Su Yuan remained unsure about the other rumors surrounding him.
• Su Yuan attended Evil Slaying University’s opening ceremony, learned that its principal was a Nascent Soul Peak Sword Cultivator, and heard that fewer than ten Spirit Transmutation experts had emerged on Blue Star.
• Su Yuan explored University Town with Chen Nuoyi and spent his first night in the dorm without incident before learning the next day that military training was coming.

Su Yuan and the other freshmen entered the ruined Absolute Sword World for a dangerous military-training exercise led by Instructor Zhao. As Sword Slaves approached their camp, Su Yuan felt unexpectedly at home in the world’s demonic aura.

• Instructor Zhao told the fifty-nine freshmen that their twenty-day military training in the Absolute Sword World would involve real danger and that he would intervene only to prevent deaths.
• Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, Xiao Kong, and the other students entered the dead world through the World Hall.
• Instructor Zhao explained how a Sword Demon had enslaved the world’s inhabitants as Sword Slaves and said the sect had hidden sword legacies there for the slaves to guard.
• Instructor Zhao ordered the students to prioritize survival, warned them about the Sword Demon’s undiscovered legacy, and taught them wilderness survival basics.
• After the students set up camp and lit a Spirit Energy Lamp, rustling sounds came from the darkness around them.

The Sword Slaves attacked the military training camp, and the students split into groups to defend themselves. After Chen Nuoyi restrained the Sword Slaves near Su Yuan, he declared he would give them a “proper burial” by harvesting their bodies for materials, leaving the Xuan Ji Sword Spirit dismayed by how little her temptation affected him.

• The Sword Slaves charged the camp, and Chi Lean led most of the students in repelling their attack with holy Sword Qi.
• The more levelheaded students fought off another group of Sword Slaves, while many students joined Chi Lean’s side.
• Chen Nuoyi pinned down the Sword Slaves attacking Su Yuan’s group, leaving Xiao Kong with no chance to fight.
• Su Yuan approached the restrained Sword Slaves and said he would take them apart for magical treasure materials and blood sacrifices.
• The Xuan Ji Sword Spirit retreated into the Senluo Spiritual Root, baffled that Su Yuan’s greed made her temptations sound like moral instruction.

Su Yuan took control of the Sword Slaves by overpowering the Sword Demon's demonic energy with his own, turning them into obedient servants. He planned to use them during military training, then free them from the demonic energy afterward.

• Chen Nuoyi worried that dismantling the Sword Slaves in front of the students would leave a bad impression, so Su Yuan decided to wait.
• Chi Lean led the students in defeating the Sword Slaves and explained to Instructor Zhao that he would always protect his companions when they were in danger.
• Su Yuan examined a Sword Slave and discovered that stronger demonic energy could displace the Sword Demon's control.
• Su Yuan infused the Sword Slave with his own demonic energy, took control of it, and then subdued the remaining Sword Slaves.
• Su Yuan told the students to use the Sword Slaves for hard labor, but they backed away from him in fear.

The students split into four teams to explore the Absolute Sword World, while Su Yuan stayed at camp and used the group-chat bot AA Xiao Zhu to secretly track their fortunes. He planned to follow teams toward sword inheritances or rescue them from danger, leaving his own exploration strategy underway.

• The students formed four exploration teams led by Chi Lean, Xiao Kong, Chen Nuoyi, and Qi Hanyua, then agreed to share their locations and discoveries.
• Su Yuan introduced the free fortune-telling bot AA Xiao Zhu, and the team leaders checked predictions that showed only minor good fortune.
• After the teams departed, Su Yuan stayed at camp with his Sword Slaves, claiming he feared being eliminated while Instructor Zhao questioned his lack of exploration.
• Su Yuan revealed that Zhu Qingqing operated the bot and used Finger Command to discover where the teams would find inheritances or face danger.

After Chi Lean drew a greatly auspicious fortune and Qi Hanyua drew a deadly one, Su Yuan rushed to protect her and discovered that an intelligent entity had manipulated the surveillance feed. Qi Hanyua followed a suspicious message promising an ancient Sword Cultivator’s inheritance, and the chapter left Su Yuan learning that she believed it was a huge opportunity.

• Chen Nuoyi and the other team leaders posted their fortunes, and Chi Lean drew a greatly auspicious one while Qi Hanyua drew a greatly inauspicious one.
• Su Yuan decided to wait until Qi Hanyua faced danger, then flew toward her team and prepared a blood-sacrifice array to summon her if needed.
• Su Yuan watched Qi Hanyua rest behind a boulder before ancient Spirit Script appeared and the surveillance feed briefly cut out.
• Zhu Qingqing showed Su Yuan the message claiming that Sword Cultivator Feng Wuya was trapped beneath Myriad Dragon Mountain and would grant a peerless inheritance to anyone who rescued him.
• Qi Hanyua set off for Myriad Dragon Mountain and messaged Su Yuan, urging him to join her in pursuing the supposed opportunity.

Su Yuan learned that Feng Wuya might be connected to the Sword Demon's legacy and prepared to investigate Myriad Dragon Mountain. Qi Hanyua entered its Feng Shui Eye and met Feng Wuya, who warned her not to tell Su Yuan about him.

• Zhu Qingqing told Su Yuan about Feng Wuya's righteous deeds, and Su Yuan summoned Qi Hanyua back from her trip to Myriad Dragon Mountain.
• Instructor Zhao said Feng Wuya's message might be connected to the Sword Demon's legacy and allowed Su Yuan to investigate, promising to intervene if a power above Foundation Establishment appeared.
• Su Yuan and Qi Hanyua joined Chi Lean, helped him defeat and recruit over a thousand Sword Slaves, and found the righteous sword manual they had guarded.
• Su Yuan bestowed Fate Solidification on Chi Lean and led Qi Hanyua and the Sword Slave army to Myriad Dragon Mountain, where Instructor Zhao had found no trace of a tomb.
• Su Yuan sent Qi Hanyua into the Feng Shui Eye to draw Feng Wuya out, and Feng Wuya told her that her companions were Demon Lords and warned her not to tell Su Yuan about their meeting.

Su Yuan and Instructor Zhao confronted Feng Wuya, who explained that he was a remnant soul whose inheritance had been stolen by Yan He, the Sword Demon. Feng Wuya revealed that Yan He had left Sword Slaves behind to seize the hidden inheritance, and Instructor Zhao proposed using them for military training.

• Qi Hanyua admitted she was one of Yuan Sect’s Eight Hall Masters and had told Su Yuan about Feng Wuya, prompting Su Yuan to surround the Feng Shui Eye with Sword Slaves.
• Feng Wuya emerged as a green bead and explained that Yan He had deceived him, stolen most of his inheritance, and later destroyed the world.
• Instructor Zhao learned Feng Wuya had mistaken the Evil Slaying Sword Sect for a Demonic Cult because he misunderstood their cultivation methods and artificial spiritual roots.
• Feng Wuya revealed that Yan He had fled the world but left Personal Guard Sword Slaves to capture him and take his hidden inheritance.
• Instructor Zhao said the Sword Slaves might be used for military training if none of them had Golden Core-level combat strength.

Instructor Zhao ordered the freshmen to prepare for an attack by powerful Sword Slaves while secretly arranging reinforcements. As the students gathered, he explained that the Federation’s understanding of the Immortal Tribulation matched ancient accounts: it had wiped out nearly all cultivators on its foretold day.

• Instructor Zhao ordered Su Yuan and Qi Hanyua to assemble the freshmen and defend against the Sword Slaves, while secretly alerting the school for help.
• Instructor Zhao told Feng Wuya that Golden Core Counselors and Taihua Tianji were preparing to intervene if Yan He Sword Demon descended.
• Feng Wuya refused Su Yuan’s offer to preserve his soul in the Myriad Soul Banner and said he would wait until the trial ended before passing on his knowledge.
• Instructor Zhao told Su Yuan and Qi Hanyua that the Federation had reached the same conclusions about the Immortal Tribulation as ancient cultivators.
• Instructor Zhao explained that the Thirty-Six Spirit Transmutation Heavenly Lords had foretold the Immortal Tribulation, but on its appointed day nearly all ancient cultivators died despite their defenses.

Su Yuan proposed that the fifty-nine military training students fight the fifty-thousand Sword Slave army head-on, promising he could keep them alive. He demonstrated his method by extracting a pill from a Sword Slave that would give his classmates iron-hard bones, leaving Instructor Zhao stunned by his sinister alchemy.

• Instructor Zhao and Feng Wuya explained that up to fifty thousand Sword Slaves and three Foundation Establishment Peak Personal Guard Sword Slaves threatened the fifty-nine students.
• Chi Lean proposed retreating while fighting until military training ended, but Su Yuan argued that the students should stand and fight instead.
• Su Yuan ordered everyone to charge into the Sword Slave army while he watched from Myriad Dragon Mountain and supported them, promising no one would die.
• Qi Hanyua tried to escape the plan, and the other students gathered behind Chi Lean while Instructor Zhao questioned whether Su Yuan could protect them.
• Su Yuan extracted a silver-gray pill from a controlled Sword Slave and claimed it would give the students sword-hard bones, leaving Instructor Zhao stunned.

Su Yuan used his silver Sword Bone Pills and Spiritual Energy Engines to recruit students to defend Myriad Dragon Mountain. When two Sword Slave armies approached from opposite directions, he led the students in a charge against one army to escape the encirclement.

• Su Yuan gave Qi Hanyua a silver pill, demonstrating that it strengthened her body, then refined more pills from Foundation Establishment Sword Slaves for Xiao Kong, Chen Nuoyi, and a freshman who paid him a hundred thousand yuan.
• Su Yuan sold Spiritual Energy Engines to the freshmen, and nearly thirty-five students agreed to help defend Myriad Dragon Mountain while others waited to see how the battle went.
• The Sword Slave armies approached from the front and rear, and Chen Nuoyi reported that each force had over twenty thousand troops, a gigantic Guard-level Sword Slave, and more than fifty Foundation Establishment Sword Slaves between them.
• Su Yuan rejected splitting up and charged the approaching army with the Crimson Origin Sword, aiming to break through before the two forces could join.
• Chen Nuoyi followed with her Thousand Gold Sword, and Xiao Kong, Qi Hanyua, Chi Lean, and the other committed students joined her as fifty-nine streaks of sword light pursued Su Yuan.