Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zhuqing returned to Shrek Academy, confronted Dai Mubai, and revealed that Ma Hongjun’s behavior had brought his punishment on himself. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed Li Zhexian as Chen Xin emerged from seclusion and asked what had happened to him.

• Zhu Zhuqing evaded Dai Mubai’s attack, revealed her Soul Power had reached level thirty-seven, and struck him across the face with the flat of her blade.
• Zhu Zhuqing defended Li Zhexian and condemned Ma Hongjun for exploiting girls, while Flender admitted he had failed as a teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang announced that Blue Tyrant Academy would merge with Shrek and urged the students to train for the Soul Master Competition.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed Li Zhexian, Ning Rongrong’s feelings, and their certainty that Li Zhexian would not return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Chen Xin shattered the sword-shaped mountain, swept away the clouds with a sword gesture, and asked Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong what had happened to Li Zhexian.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Li Zhexian reunited with Xue Qinghe at Lotus Lake and hosted his friends at Shanxiangfang. The chapter ended when a mysterious white-clad figure appeared on a rooftop and challenged Li Zhexian about his drinking and swordsmanship.

• Li Zhexian and his companions returned to Heaven Dou City, agreed to meet at Shanxiangfang, and parted ways.
• Li Zhexian declined Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling's invitations and went to Lotus Lake to see Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe realized she had missed Li Zhexian, then was delighted when he appeared; they shared game by the lake with Pufferfish and Snake Lance.
• Li Zhexian hosted his friends at Shanxiangfang, where Yu Tianheng challenged him and was knocked down by two cups of strong wine.
• After returning to his courtyard, Li Zhexian heard a voice question his swordsmanship and spotted a white-clad figure on a rooftop.

Chen Xin challenged Li Zhexian to a swordsmanship duel and critiqued the foundations of his techniques as he countered them. Li Zhexian defended his sword path and unleashed a starlight strike, which Chen Xin began to dispel with a thrust of the Seven Kill Sword.

• Chen Xin appeared before Li Zhexian and summoned the Seven Kill Sword, prompting Li Zhexian to call forth the Azure Lotus Sword.
• Li Zhexian attacked with Azure Edge Severance, but Chen Xin pierced its weakness and explained the principles of the Lower Sword Realm.
• Li Zhexian used the Blazing Frost Sword, and Chen Xin shattered its ice-and-fire spiral with a precise thrust before criticizing his reliance on outside powers.
• Li Zhexian argued that mastering fire, ice, and other forces made them part of his sword, then launched the Azure Lotus Sword Song's starlight strike.
• Chen Xin called Li Zhexian's starlight technique hollow and thrust into it, causing the starlight to begin fading and scattering.

Li Zhexian defended his Myriad Manifestations Sword Dao against Chen Xin, who agreed to return in a month and suggested he visit the great sects. After secluded cultivation, Li Zhexian encountered a mysterious group at a noodle stall as the Soul Master Competition approached.

• Li Zhexian argued that his Sword Dao fused the laws of heaven and earth into one sword, then used his Spirit Ring, Spirit Bone, and Sword Formation to challenge Chen Xin again.
• Chen Xin shattered Li Zhexian's formation but praised his talent, promised to visit in a month, and advised him to travel among the Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects.
• Li Zhexian asked about the realm above Night Severing, and Chen Xin replied that he would understand when he reached it.
• At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Chen Xin returned from his meeting with Li Zhexian and joyfully declared that his path was not solitary.
• Li Zhexian cultivated in seclusion, then visited his usual noodle stall while academies gathered at Heaven Dou Royal Academy ahead of the Soul Master Competition.
• A group of young men and women entered the noodle stall, bringing a scorching aura that silenced the crowd.

Li Zhexian met members of Blazing Fire Academy and heard them discuss Jian Jiu’s reputation. The next day, Xue Qinghe asked Li Zhexian to serve as backup for the Imperial Dou Team during the academy exchanges, and he agreed.

• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang discussed Jian Jiu’s strength with their Blazing Fire Academy teammates at a noodle stall.
• Huo Wu asked Li Zhexian about Jian Jiu, and he claimed Jian Jiu was even stronger than the storyteller said.
• Xue Qinghe visited Li Zhexian with Three Immortals Chicken and shared a meal with him in his courtyard.
• Xue Qinghe explained that her ailing Imperial Father had left her responsible for the academy exchanges and that she wanted Li Zhexian as insurance if the Imperial Dou Team lost.
• Li Zhexian agreed to join the exchanges.

Li Zhexian attended the Four Academy Exchange at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Xue Qinghe briefed him on the visiting teams and asked for his help securing a good result. The draw matched Imperial Dou against Elephant Armor and Blazing Fire against Divine Wind, while Yu Tianheng’s teammates trusted that Li Zhexian would ensure their victory.

• Xue Qinghe, Dugu Bo, and the academy’s Education Committee Members welcomed Li Zhexian to the guest seating as the exchange’s invited reinforcement.
• Xue Qinghe gave Li Zhexian candied fruit and described Elephant Armor’s defensive lineup, then explained that the royal family needed the event to go well.
• Xue Qinghe identified Feng Xiaotian and his self-created Spirit Skill as a serious threat, and Li Zhexian assessed that Imperial Dou would face a difficult contest.
• The draw paired Imperial Dou with Elephant Armor and Blazing Fire with Divine Wind.
• Huo Wu recognized Li Zhexian from the noodle shop, while Yu Tianheng’s teammates looked to Li Zhexian for confidence in Huangdou Academy’s chances.

The Imperial Dou Team defeated the Elephant Armored Team, but Godwind Academy then beat Blazing Fire Academy and Huangdou Academy to claim first place. As Feng Xiaotian prepared to leave without a challenger, Li Zhexian stepped onto the arena to face him.

• Hu Yanli used Mammoth Might to charge Yu Tianheng, but Yu Tianheng met him with Thunder Dragon Claw and forced him back.
• The Imperial Dou Team rallied and narrowly defeated the Elephant Armored Team.
• Feng Xiaotian overwhelmed Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu as Godwind Academy defeated Blazing Fire Academy.
• After an hour's rest, Godwind Academy defeated Huangdou Academy, with Feng Xiaotian claiming first place.
• When no one volunteered to challenge Feng Xiaotian, Li Zhexian rose from the Guest Seating and appeared in the arena to accept.

Li Zhexian, revealed as Jian Jiu, faced Feng Xiaotian in the Arena and used his opponent’s wind attacks to hone his swordsmanship. He left to pursue a sudden insight after pinning Feng Xiaotian to the arena wall with two swords, securing victory.

• Feng Xiaotian opened the duel with his Twin Wolf Possession and Demon Wolf Storm, but Li Zhexian effortlessly dispersed his wind blades with sword qi.
• The spectators recognized Li Zhexian as Jian Jiu, while Huo Wu realized he had been praising himself when she asked about Jian Jiu’s strength.
• Li Zhexian challenged Feng Xiaotian to use his Thirty-Six Wind Slashes and blocked the attack with ease, revealing his formidable physical strength.
• Feng Xiaotian unleashed a sustained barrage of wind slashes as Li Zhexian drank wine and studied the wind’s momentum to improve his sword techniques.
• Li Zhexian grasped a new sword insight, rushed off the stage, and used two Azure Lotus Swords to pin Feng Xiaotian to the arena wall before leaving.

Li Zhexian gained a trace of Wind Intent by observing the wind scatter plum blossoms, but he still lacked enough insight to create a new sword technique. After suspecting the Wind Sword Sect might hold the key, he woke to find three teams challenging him to a drinking contest.

• Li Zhexian watched the wind scatter plum blossoms and realized the principles behind his three sword forms, then opened a fissure in the Sky Curtain with his sword.
• By morning, Li Zhexian had grasped a trace of sword intent from the wind, revived three plum blossoms with wine, and wondered whether the Wind Sword Sect could help him complete the third form of his Azure Lotus Sword Song.
• After sleeping until late afternoon, Li Zhexian found members of the Imperial Dou, Elephant Armor, Blazing Fire, and Divine Wind teams gathered at his gate.
• Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Hu Yanli challenged Li Zhexian to a drinking contest, and he accepted.
• Li Zhexian led the group to Shanxiangfang and asked Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling whether Xue Qinghe had come, learning that she was unlikely to join them.

Xue Qinghe secured ten days of leave so she could spend time with Li Zhexian, whom she considered more important than her duties and identity. She found him drinking with his friends at Shanxiangfang and joined the gathering.

• Xue Qinghe told Xue Ye that Jian Jiu had defeated Feng Xiaotian, and Xue Ye rewarded him while granting Xue Qinghe ten days of leave.
• Xue Qinghe told Pufferfish and Snake Lance that she would give up her titles and responsibilities if Li Zhexian shared his life with her, then asked where he was.
• Pufferfish told Xue Qinghe that Li Zhexian was drinking at Shanxiangfang, so she left the palace to pay for his wine.
• Li Zhexian drank Feng Xiaotian, Yu Tianheng, Huo Wushuang, Hu Yanli, and the others into submission.
• Huo Wu, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling drank and joked with Li Zhexian until Xue Qinghe entered the room and joined them.

After seeing off the other teams, Li Zhexian declined an offer to join the Imperial Dou Team and prepared to visit the Wind Sword Sect. He left Heaven Dou City alone, and on the road encountered a golden-haired rider on a white Wind Chasing Colt.

• Feng Xiaotian admitted defeat and challenged Li Zhexian to settle things at the Soul Master Competition in six months.
• Yu Tianheng offered Li Zhexian the Imperial Dou Team captaincy, but Li Zhexian declined and said he planned to visit the Wind Sword Sect.
• Xue Qinghe took Li Zhexian fishing at Lotus Lake and asked which of Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling was prettier, but he avoided answering.
• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Yu Tianheng, and the others saw Li Zhexian off as he rode away from Heaven Dou City.
• Li Zhexian rounded a bend and spotted a golden-haired figure riding a white Wind Chasing Colt.

Li Zhexian traveled with Qian Renxue, who concealed that she was Xue Qinghe, to the Wind Sword Sect. After two days on the road, they reached the sect’s mountain stronghold, where Li Zhexian announced his arrival.

• Qian Renxue stopped Li Zhexian on the road and claimed that Xue Qinghe had sent her to accompany him.
• Li Zhexian questioned Qian Renxue’s motives, accepted her Crown Prince Token, and reluctantly agreed to let her travel with him.
• Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue rode for two days, rested by a lake to eat freshly caught fish, and continued toward the Wind Sword Sect.
• Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue reached the wind-filled mountain pass, where Li Zhexian sensed his Azure Lotus Sword stirring.
• Li Zhexian called out to the Wind Sword Sect and announced that he had come to pay his respects.

Li Zhexian visited the Wind Sword Sect with Qian Renxue to seek an opportunity to break through his Sword Dao bottleneck, and Feng Buyu took him to meet Sect Master Feng Bailong. Feng Bailong finally noticed Li Zhexian’s traces of the Seven Kill Sword and asked whether he had recently discussed swordsmanship with Chen Xin.

• Feng Buyu welcomed Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue, and Li Zhexian explained that he had come to seek insight for a Sword Dao breakthrough.
• Feng Buyu brought them into the Wind Sword Sect and showed Li Zhexian the disciples practicing among the Wind-Eroded Rock Pillars.
• Elder Feng Xiao greeted the visitors, then agreed that Li Zhexian should meet Sect Master Feng Bailong without delay.
• Feng Buyu led Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue up Sword Enlightenment Mountain to Feng Bailong’s cultivation site.
• Feng Bailong sat silently at the cliff until he sensed Li Zhexian’s Seven Kill Sword traces and asked whether he had been discussing the sword with Chen Xin.

Li Zhexian discussed swordsmanship with Feng Bailong, who taught him to hear sword intent through the wind and offered to take him somewhere to deepen his understanding. The chapter ended with Feng Bailong pulling Li Zhexian off a ten-thousand-foot cliff, prompting Qian Renxue to dive after them.

• Feng Bailong recognized that Li Zhexian had discussed swordsmanship with Chen Xin and praised his talent in the sword.
• Feng Bailong invited Li Zhexian to discuss swordsmanship while Qian Renxue waited in a nearby pavilion.
• Feng Bailong explained how he used the wind to hear the sword and showed Li Zhexian how wind passing through a Wind-Eroded Rock became a natural Sword Formation.
• Feng Bailong said he knew a place where Li Zhexian could hear the sword's hum, then seized his wrist and leaped with him off the cliff.
• Qian Renxue unfurled her six Wings of Radiance and plunged after them.

Feng Bailong brought Li Zhexian to the Wind Sword Sect’s Wind Eye to help him comprehend Wind Intent, while Qian Renxue followed and briefly mistook Feng Bailong’s intentions. Li Zhexian discovered the Wind Soul Crystal Clusters could be used to brew Roaming Wind Essence, and planned to share the wine with the sect.

• Feng Bailong took Li Zhexian down to the Wind Eye, where Qian Renxue arrived and confronted him before Li Zhexian explained that Feng Bailong meant no harm.
• Feng Bailong explained how the Wind Eye gathered powerful winds and advised Li Zhexian to listen to the wind and comprehend Wind Intent there.
• Feng Bailong gave Li Zhexian Wind Binding Gauze and told him to take his time cultivating at the Wind Eye.
• Li Zhexian asked about the blue-gray crystal clusters, and Feng Bailong identified them as Wind Soul Crystal Clusters and told him he could take them freely.
• Li Zhexian recognized the crystals as an ingredient for Roaming Wind Essence and decided he would share the wine with the Wind Sword Sect.

Li Zhexian endured the Wind Eye’s brutal gale for a third day, seeking to comprehend Sword Intent through his own effort before relying on the Roaming Wind Essence. He left with Wind Soul Crystal Clusters and, badly wounded, was carried home by Qian Renxue.

• Feng Buyu chastised disciples who doubted Li Zhexian, then tried to follow him to the Wind Eye but stumbled because he was blindfolded.
• Feng Xiao praised Feng Buyu’s resolve and told the elders he believed Li Zhexian would comprehend Sword Intent, though most elders doubted it was possible so soon.
• Li Zhexian endured the gale’s thousand cuts while listening to its currents and reaffirmed that his Martial Soul should support his strength rather than define it.
• As the sun set, Li Zhexian collected Wind Soul Crystal Clusters and declared that he would succeed in extracting the Roaming Wind Essence that day.
• Qian Renxue carried the severely wounded Li Zhexian home on her back beneath the stars.

Li Zhexian brewed Roaming Wind Essence and returned with Qian Renxue to the Wind Eye, where he comprehended the sword of Wind Intent. After awakening to a free-flowing sword style, he invited Qian Renxue to dance a sword with him.

• Li Zhexian finished brewing Roaming Wind Essence with Qian Renxue's help.
• Li Zhexian pulled Qian Renxue to the Wind Eye to pursue sword comprehension.
• Li Zhexian listened to the wind and understood that the sword of Wind Intent should be formless and free.
• Li Zhexian drank Roaming Wind Essence and invited Qian Renxue to dance a sword with him.
• Qian Renxue formed a radiant longsword and rushed toward Li Zhexian through the gale.

Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue completed a sword dance in the Wind Eye, allowing him to perfect the Azure Lotus Sword Song’s third form, Formless Wind. The next morning, he revealed his achievement to the Wind Sword Sect and prepared to test the technique before its gathered disciples and elders.

• Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue danced with their swords in the Wind Eye, sharing the Roaming Wind Essence as wind and light intertwined.
• Li Zhexian released a formless sword strike that left a natural sword mark in the cliff and declared Formless Wind complete.
• Feng Bailong sensed the sword mark and was astonished that Li Zhexian had comprehended Wind Sword Intent so quickly.
• The next morning, Feng Buyu and the disciples asked why Li Zhexian had skipped the Wind Eye, and Li Zhexian said he wanted to test his newly comprehended wind technique on a Wind-Eroded Rock Pillar.
• Li Zhexian confirmed that he had comprehended Wind Sword Intent, drawing the sect’s disciples and elders to the Sword Stele Forest.
• Feng Bailong arrived, congratulated Li Zhexian, and said he wanted to see the new sword’s power.

Li Zhexian demonstrated his newly comprehended Wind Sword Intent at the Wind Sword Sect, astonishing its elders and disciples with the power of his Formless Wind strike. He offered the sect Roaming Wind Essence as thanks, leaving Feng Bailong tempted by the wine’s wind-attributed energy and Li Zhexian wondering whether it could help him become a Title Douluo.

• Li Zhexian summoned the Azure Lotus Sword, whose sharpness made the sword Martial Souls of the gathered Spirit Masters tremble.
• Li Zhexian used Formless Wind to carve a scar more than a foot deep into the Wind-Eroded Rock Pillar, proving he had comprehended Wind Sword Intent in four days.
• Feng Bailong praised Li Zhexian’s insight into the wind’s formlessness, and the Wind Sword Sect members returned Li Zhexian’s respectful bow.
• Li Zhexian offered wine brewed with the sect’s Wind Soul Crystal Clusters as a token of thanks, but Feng Bailong initially refused the gift.
• Li Zhexian brought out dozens of bottles of Roaming Wind Essence, whose aura stirred the sect members’ wind-attributed Soul Power and left Feng Bailong unable to refuse.
• Li Zhexian hoped the Roaming Wind Essence might help Feng Bailong break through to become a Title Douluo.

Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue left the Wind Sword Sect and traveled back toward Heaven Dou City, where their conversation about Xue Qinghe revealed Li Zhexian’s unwavering loyalty. As night fell on a remote road, they sensed a group of powerful pursuers closing in.

• Feng Bailong held a feast to celebrate Li Zhexian’s sword comprehension, then saw Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue off with promises of friendship.
• Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue set out for the Heaven Dou Empire, and Li Zhexian urged them onward with renewed enthusiasm.
• During a lunch stop, Qian Renxue asked what Li Zhexian thought of Xue Qinghe and repeated rumors about the Crown Prince’s ruthlessness.
• Li Zhexian angrily defended his bond with Xue Qinghe, leaving Qian Renxue both relieved and worried about revealing her identity.
• More than ten powerful figures pursued Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue through the forest, and the two halted when they sensed danger after nightfall.