Chapter Summaries

The storyteller returned to Heaven Dou City and reunited with Li Zhexian and his friends during their drunken night out. As the storyteller began a tale about Jian Jiu and the young heroes shattering Spirit Hall, dozens of Spirit Masters emerged from nearby alleys.

• The storyteller returned to Heaven Dou City after five years away and learned that Li Zhexian had come back over a month earlier.
• Li Zhexian and his friends left Shanxiangfang after a long drinking feast and headed for hot noodles.
• The storyteller recognized the group and began telling how Jian Jiu and the young heroes had shattered Spirit Hall.
• Feng Xiaotian challenged Li Zhexian to a spar, but dozens of Spirit Masters suddenly poured from the surrounding alleys.

Li Zhexian and his companions faced an armed Spirit Hall force led by Salas, who tried to seize a storyteller for discussing Pope Bibi Dong. After Salas’s men attacked Heaven Dou guards, Li Zhexian instantly killed two Soul Saints and returned to his noodles, leaving Salas shaken.

• Feng Buyu and the other young Spirit Masters prepared to fight as Salas arrived with two Soul Saints and threatened the storyteller.
• The Heaven Dou guard captain refused to hand the storyteller over to Spirit Hall and ordered his guards to take him to prison for trial.
• One of Salas’s Soul Saints struck down a Heaven Dou guard, and Salas ordered his forces to attack the remaining guards.
• Li Zhexian used Ya Zi Sword Gap and his first two soul skills to kill both Soul Saints in an instant.
• Salas tried to strike Li Zhexian, but Li Zhexian vanished and reappeared at his seat, calmly eating noodles.

Li Zhexian confronted Bishop Salas on Long Street and unleashed his Azure Lotus Sword Formation and Divine Slaughter's Domain against the Spirit Hall group. As the battle raged, powerful figures gathered in Heaven Dou City, while a youth watching from afar approved of Li Zhexian’s marriage.

• Li Zhexian dismissed the guards’ thanks, challenged Bishop Salas, and told his friends not to interfere.
• Bishop Salas used his Thousand Light Blade Prison to destroy Li Zhexian’s sword qi.
• Li Zhexian revealed his unusual Spirit Rings and trapped Bishop Salas and the Spirit Hall followers in the Azure Lotus Twelve Calamities formation.
• Li Zhexian’s robes turned blood-red as Divine Slaughter’s Domain manifested, and his sword qi clashed with Bishop Salas’s Light Soul Power inside the formation.
• Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, Feng Bailong, and Yu Yuanzhen watched from nearby buildings as they gathered to discuss Spirit Hall’s growing ambitions.
• A youth watching the battle through an Ice Crystal mirror praised Li Zhexian’s progress and approved of the marriage.

Li Zhexian fought Bishop Salas after breaking the Sword Formation, then revealed the power of his fifth Soul Skill, Ya Zi Repays. He killed Salas outright, leaving the watching experts astonished by his strength and the strange slaughtering aura around him.

• Bishop Salas broke the Sword Formation with his Seventh Soul Skill and attacked Li Zhexian with a barrage of Spirit Skills.
• Li Zhexian and Bishop Salas fought fiercely in the sky, both suffering severe wounds as the watching experts discussed Li Zhexian’s swordsmanship and potential.
• As Li Zhexian’s injuries worsened, a fierce Yazi beast phantom formed behind him, alarming the observers with its slaughtering aura.
• Li Zhexian mocked Salas’s declining vitality and devotion to the Pope, then declared he could kill him without help from the hidden seniors.
• Li Zhexian activated his fifth Soul Skill, Ya Zi Repays, and the Yazi phantom bypassed Salas’s Shield of Light, detonating his accumulated damage and annihilating him.

Li Zhexian defeated Salas and the Heaven Dou Branch’s Spirit Masters, then spent several days enjoying Heaven Dou with his friends. On his way home, he intercepted a mysterious figure in a dark alley, where an elderly man in gray emerged and greeted him.

• Li Zhexian returned to the noodle stall after executing Salas and the forty-two Spirit Masters, and the guards thanked him while arranging repairs and sending a report to the palace.
• The Storyteller resumed his tale, and Li Zhexian’s friends gathered around him to eat and tease Feng Xiaotian into challenging him to a spar.
• Li Zhexian and his friends toured Heaven Dou and explored the surrounding mountains and rivers for several days.
• After seeing his friends to their lodgings, Li Zhexian sensed someone in a dark alley, summoned qi swords, and rushed in with the Azure Lotus Sword.
• Li Zhexian clashed with the hidden figure, and an elderly man in a gray robe stepped from the shadows and greeted him.

Li Zhexian drank with Feng Bailong, Yu Yuanzhen, Dugu Bo, and Chen Xin as they agreed to support Heaven Dou against Spirit Hall. He warned them that Spirit Hall planned to strike the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan first, while Bibi Dong asked about his strength.

• Feng Bailong, Yu Yuanzhen, Dugu Bo, and Chen Xin visited Li Zhexian, and the five shared wine in his courtyard.
• Dugu Bo declared he would defend Heaven Dou, while Chen Xin, Yu Yuanzhen, and Feng Bailong pledged their sects' support.
• Li Zhexian realized the seniors expected Spirit Hall to attack Heaven Dou first and warned them that its initial targets would instead be the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Chen Xin and Yu Yuanzhen reacted in shock as Li Zhexian revealed what he had learned from the golden-haired girl.
• At the Papal Palace, Bibi Dong asked whether Bishop Salas had reported back and what Li Zhexian's current combat strength was.

Bibi Dong learned that Li Zhexian had destroyed the Heaven Dou Spirit Hall branch and ordered the Soul Hunting Plan to begin early. As Li Zhexian and his friends pledged to defend their homeland, they learned that Elephant Armor Sect had left Heaven Dou, putting Huyan on a possible opposing side.

• A messenger reported that Li Zhexian had killed Salas and all forty-two Spirit Masters with him, destroying the Heaven Dou Branch.
• Bibi Dong discussed Li Zhexian’s growing threat with Magic Bear, Moon Guan, Ghost Charm, and Ghost Leopard, then ordered ten thousand Spirit Masters mobilized to attack the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan in one month.
• Li Zhexian’s friends gathered in a garden pavilion and vowed that they would defend their homeland, with Li Zhexian saying they would fight to protect the people and places they loved.
• Yu Tianheng said his younger brother Tianxin, confined at home, had asked Li Zhexian to save him a cup of wine.
• Huo Wushuang asked about Huyan, and Li Zhexian revealed that Elephant Armor Academy had withdrawn from the Elemental Academies and Elephant Armor Sect had moved away from Heaven Dou.
• Li Zhexian mourned Huyan and said they might have to face each other as enemies on a battlefield.

Qian Renxue reunited with Li Zhexian and told him she would return to the Worship Hall to grow stronger, while promising not to become a burden to him. After she departed, Guang Ling Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo confronted Li Zhexian, revealed they had been secretly protecting her, and stayed to see how their relationship was progressing.

• Qian Renxue declined Li Zhexian’s offer to discuss Spirit Hall and said she needed to become stronger before walking with him through the city.
• Qian Renxue told Li Zhexian she wanted to stay by his side but would not burden him, and the two agreed to keep meeting outside Spirit City.
• Qian Renxue gave Li Zhexian the Angel Auspicious Feather and flew away toward the Sky Curtain.
• Guang Ling Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo confronted Li Zhexian over his remarks about their fighting strength and his embrace of Qian Renxue.
• Falling Devil Douluo said they had come to protect Qian Renxue secretly and see how her relationship with Li Zhexian was progressing, while Guang Ling Douluo warmed to the trinkets Li Zhexian brought out.

Li Zhexian refused the Worship Hall’s offer and prepared to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as conflict between Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou loomed. After he left Heaven Dou City with Ning Rongrong, Tang San learned of his departure and broke a zither string in alarm.

• Falling Devil Douluo invited Li Zhexian to join the Worship Hall, but Li Zhexian refused and asked whether the Worship Hall would intervene in a war between Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou.
• Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, Feng Xiaotian, Shui Bing'er, and the others left to return to their academies, and Li Zhexian told Feng Buyu he planned to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Li Zhexian returned to Heaven Dou City with his friends, then departed for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Ning Rongrong; Oscar left separately to form a mercenary group.
• Three days after Li Zhexian left, Tang San asked his aunt whether he had truly departed, then snapped a zither string when she questioned his wariness of him.

Tang Yuehua told Tang San that she would take him to acknowledge his ancestors and return to the sect after he learned the zither score. Li Zhexian visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where he warned its leaders that Spirit Hall planned to attack and prepared to enter their scheme; Chen Xin then recalled a place that might aid Li Zhexian’s sword cultivation.

• Tang Yuehua saw Tang San's anger over Li Zhexian and promised to take him back to the sect after he finished learning the zither score.
• Li Zhexian arrived at Seven Treasure Mountain and was welcomed by Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, Ning Rongrong, and hundreds of disciples.
• Li Zhexian clarified that he had come only to visit the seniors, not to return to the sect, and soon left the banquet for a private meeting.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong learned that Spirit Hall intended to attack the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and recognized that Li Zhexian was repaying his old debt of gratitude.
• Ning Fengzhi regretted how the sect had treated Li Zhexian, and Chen Xin recalled a place in the sect that might help his Myriad Manifestations Sword Dao.

Chen Xin brought Li Zhexian to the Seven Treasure Starry Sky Barrier to cultivate his Spiritual Power and develop a new Sword Intent. Li Zhexian entered the barrier as Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin watched, while Chen Xin worried that forming a Mental Sword Intent might be impossible.

• Chen Xin led Li Zhexian around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's old grounds, where Li Zhexian recalled practicing sword forms and picking pears as a child.
• Chen Xin showed Li Zhexian the Seven Treasure Starry Sky Barrier and explained how it tempered the sect's disciples.
• Chen Xin pointed out that Li Zhexian's Spiritual Power was a weakness and urged him to use the barrier to cultivate it and develop a new Sword Intent.
• Li Zhexian entered the barrier, prompting the gathered disciples to speculate about how many treasures he would obtain.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong joined Chen Xin, who admitted he was uncertain whether Li Zhexian could condense Spiritual Power into a Mental Sword Intent.

Li Zhexian endured the Seven Treasure Starry Sky Barrier's illusions and Spiritual Power strain, then emerged after ninety minutes with an astonishing five treasures. His final boast that he picked up the fifth treasure casually left the sect disciples and its leaders stunned.

• Li Zhexian struggled to cross the star-sand river while distinguishing genuine treasures from illusions, and his first attempt to seize a Jade Bottle ended in a Spiritual Turbulence blast.
• Outside the barrier, Ning Rongrong worried when Li Zhexian remained inside far longer than she had managed during her own first attempt.
• Li Zhexian staggered out pale and exhausted, avoided Ning Rongrong's attempt to support him, and leaned against a pillar of sword qi.
• Li Zhexian revealed four treasures in his palm, astonishing Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, Ning Rongrong, and the assembled disciples.
• Li Zhexian revealed a fifth treasure, a towering Treasure Tree, and said he had casually plucked it while leaving the barrier.

Li Zhexian repeatedly braved the Seven Treasure Starry Sky Barrier, progressing from five treasures to seven as he pursued Mental Power Sword Intent. As he decided to brew Liguang Fuming Drink to endure the barrier’s spiritual assault, Ning Fengzhi learned that Spirit Hall had secretly assembled ten thousand Spirit Masters.

• Li Zhexian explained that he had endured the Starry Sky Barrier through willpower, and Ning Rongrong urged Ning Fengzhi to let him rest.
• Li Zhexian entered the barrier each day and plucked six treasures by the third day, alarming the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with his relentless pace.
• Li Zhexian reasoned that Liguang Fuming Drink could help heal spiritual wounds and let him endure the barrier longer as he sought sword enlightenment.
• Li Zhexian seized the seventh Glazed Tile Bead, suffered a devastating spiritual backlash, and resolved to brew Liguang Fuming Drink that night.
• Ning Fengzhi quietly asked Chen Xin and Gu Rong about Spirit Hall, and they revealed that it had assembled ten thousand Spirit Masters.

Li Zhexian refused Ning Rongrong’s meals to avoid giving her hope, while she continued caring for him and vowed not to give up. After exhausting himself in the Seven Treasure Starry Sky Barrier, he successfully brewed the Liguang Fuming Drink, whose spiritual fluctuation drew Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong’s attention before he hurried back to the barrier.

• Li Zhexian collapsed in the courtyard without eating Ning Rongrong’s dishes, determined to end their emotional entanglement cleanly.
• Ning Rongrong covered Li Zhexian with a blanket, stored the untouched food to keep it warm, and promised herself she would not give up on him.
• Li Zhexian woke with severe pain from his depleted Spiritual Power and decided the Liguang Fuming Drink had to succeed before he could enter the Seven Treasure Starry Sky Barrier again.
• Li Zhexian added crushed Spirit Grass to the starry wine and used his Spiritual Power to catalyze its fusion, completing the brew amid a powerful spiritual fluctuation.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong sensed the fluctuation, then saw Li Zhexian rush toward the Seven Treasure Starry Sky Barrier.

Li Zhexian used the Liguang Fuming Drink to withstand the Seven Treasure Starry Sky Barrier and spent half a month cultivating inside it, ultimately obtaining the Seventh Treasure and forming Mental Power Sword Intent. As the sect prepared for a dangerous night, Ning Fengzhi’s plans and the killing aura around the forest left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect on edge.

• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong realized Li Zhexian had caused the Spiritual Power disturbance and began making plans with killing intent.
• Li Zhexian fused seven kinds of Immortal Brew into the Liguang Fuming Drink, which let him endure the Starry Sky Barrier and cultivate without rest.
• Li Zhexian shattered illusory treasures to temper himself with Spiritual Power torrents, and Ning Fengzhi later gave him an area inside the barrier for exclusive cultivation.
• After half a month, Li Zhexian plucked the Glazed Tile Bead from the treasure lights and formed a silver thread of Mental Power Sword Intent.
• Ning Rongrong waited outside the barrier as a killing aura spread through the forest and dark clouds covered the sky.

Spirit Hall launched a surprise attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but the sect had prepared an ambush and Dugu Bo joined the defenders. As the battle raged at the Main Peak, Ning Rongrong encountered Li Zhexian at the Star River Barrier.

• Ghost Leopard Douluo and Magic Bear Douluo killed two night patrol disciples and led Spirit Hall's army of ten thousand toward the sect.
• The Spirit Hall army reached the mountain gate and triggered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's traps, which killed more than a thousand attackers.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong confronted Moon Guan, Ghost Charm, Magic Bear, and Ghost Leopard above the mountain gate.
• Dugu Bo appeared beside Chen Xin and Gu Rong, and his Severe Poison killed thousands of Spirit Hall Spirit Masters before Moon Guan raised a golden pollen barrier.
• Ning Rongrong turned from the sounds of battle and saw the White-robed Youth, Li Zhexian, standing at the entrance to the Star River Barrier.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's defenders and four Spirit Hall Title Douluo clashed in a devastating battle. Dugu Bo revealed that he had reached rank 94, but Spirit Hall ordered its troops to attack the sect anyway.

• Moon Guan, Ghost Charm, Magic Bear Douluo, and Ghost Leopard Douluo confronted Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo as Ning Fengzhi enhanced the defenders with his Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo fought the four Spirit Hall Title Douluo in a battle that shattered mountains and shook the surrounding land.
• The clash ended with both sides injured, though Moon Guan and the others were especially battered by the defenders.
• Moon Guan questioned Dugu Bo's strength, and Dugu Bo revealed his mutated Four-Headed Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Avatar and rank 94 Soul Power.
• Magic Bear Douluo and the other Spirit Hall leaders ordered their troops to attack the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Main Peak and leave no survivors.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect fought Spirit Hall’s overwhelming army while its elders battled Spirit Hall’s Title Douluo. Dugu Bo trapped and began petrifying Ghost Leopard Douluo, then called on Wind Sword to finally act as the battlefield’s leaves and dust gathered toward an unseen force.

• Ning Rongrong stayed on the battlefield and used her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to enhance the sect elders as disciples fought Spirit Hall’s army.
• Ning Fengzhi poured his enhancement power into Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo as the seven Title Douluo clashed.
• Chen Xin fought Moon Guan and Ghost Charm, then unleashed a sword aura that cut through their attacks and split a distant mountain.
• Gu Rong and Magic Bear Douluo battled in their transformed forms while Dugu Bo fought Ghost Leopard Douluo.
• Dugu Bo’s Four-headed Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor coiled around Ghost Leopard Douluo and began petrifying him.
• Dugu Bo called for Wind Sword to act, and leaves and dust began streaming toward an unseen direction.

Feng Bailong killed Ghost Leopard Douluo with his ninth soul skill, marking the first Title Douluo death at Seven Treasure Mountain. As Magic Bear grieved his fallen brother, Li Zhexian appeared behind him and began the seventh form of Azure Lotus Sword Song.

• Feng Bailong arrived and unleashed his ninth soul skill against the recovering Ghost Leopard Douluo.
• Feng Bailong split Ghost Leopard Douluo in two, and the Title Douluo's death brought blood rain across the Seven Treasure Mountain Range.
• A messenger racing toward the mountain saw the blood-red sky and feared for Lord Sword Wine's safety.
• Magic Bear mourned Ghost Leopard, his longtime companion and brother, while the battle around them fell silent.
• Li Zhexian appeared behind Magic Bear, cut off the blood rain, and invoked the seventh form of Azure Lotus Sword Song, Endless Thoughts.

Li Zhexian used Mental Power Sword Intent to incapacitate Magic Bear Douluo, allowing Chen Xin, Gu Rong, Feng Bailong, and Dugu Bo to kill him. With Ghost Leopard and Magic Bear Douluo dead atop Seven Treasure Mountain, the battle left both armies horrified, and an arriving Spirit Master recognized Li Zhexian as one of the age’s strongest.

• Li Zhexian unleashed Mental Power Sword Intent, stunning Spirit Masters across the battlefield and breaking Magic Bear Douluo’s mind.
• Li Zhexian ordered Chen Xin, Gu Rong, Feng Bailong, and Dugu Bo to strike at Magic Bear Douluo.
• Chen Xin held off Moon Guan and Ghost Charm as Gu Rong, Feng Bailong, and Dugu Bo attacked Magic Bear Douluo, killing him.
• The deaths of Ghost Leopard and Magic Bear Douluo left the battlefield silent beneath a torrent of blood rain.
• A Spirit Master arrived at the mountain, saw Li Zhexian among the Title Douluo, and declared that Lord Sword Wine belonged among the strongest of the age.