Chapter Summaries

Xiang Yuan discovered that the injured swordswoman he had rescued was Cheng Yuling, Xiao Lingyue and Xiao He's mother, and secured her approval by claiming he and Xiao Lingyue were pledged to each other. The chapter ended with Cheng Yuling confronting King Zhao, Xiao Yan, and forcing Xiang Yuan to play along with her claim that they had spent the night together.

• Cheng Yuling woke in Xiang Yuan's shelter and thanked him for treating her injuries, then offered to help him win over the woman he loved.
• Xiang Yuan learned Cheng Yuling was Xiao Lingyue's mother and told her he and Xiao Lingyue had fallen in love and secretly pledged themselves to each other.
• Cheng Yuling recognized Xiao He's letter and sachet, welcomed Xiang Yuan as her child, and pressed him to show her Xiao Lingyue's bite mark.
• Cheng Yuling approved of Xiang Yuan as a future son-in-law and promised to support him if Xiao Lingyue bullied him.
• King Zhao, Xiao Yan, arrived to see Cheng Yuling, who rebuffed him and told him she had spent the night with Xiang Yuan; she warned Xiang Yuan to back her story while he protested that he had only treated her injuries.

Xiao Yan reunited with Cheng Yuling and learned that Xiang Yuan had pledged himself to Xiao Lingyue, then struggled to assess his future son-in-law. After reading Xiang Yuan’s intelligence report, Xiao Yan recognized his extraordinary talent and decided to accept him, trusting Xiao He’s judgment about Lingyue’s marriage.

• Xiao Yan found Cheng Yuling in the ruined temple, reconciled with her, and learned Xiang Yuan was Xiao He’s sworn brother and Xiao Lingyue’s intended partner.
• Xiao Yan questioned Xiang Yuan’s motives, but Cheng Yuling defended him and made Xiao Yan apologize and treat Xiang Yuan as family.
• Xiang Yuan told Cheng Yuling that Xiao Yan had promised him a great opportunity, prompting Xiao Yan to back down and secretly promise to arrange one.
• Xiao Yan read a report identifying the Wang Clan patriarch as the employer behind the Stellar Palace assassins and decided to deal with the clan after consulting Xiao Qian.
• Xiao Yan read Xiang Yuan’s background and combat record, learned he had reached Foundation Establishment Perfection and killed an Innate Realm assassin, and decided to accept him while trusting Xiao He’s choice for Lingyue.

Xiang Yuan won Xiao Yan’s approval as Xiao Lingyue’s match, became Xiao Yan’s ninety-first adopted son, and demonstrated his strength to the residence’s experts. The chapter ended when Xiao Lingyue sent Xiang Yuan an invitation to open his door.

• Xiao Yan warned Xiang Yuan that Unrivaled Palace’s Palace Master would oppose his marriage to Xiao Lingyue, then revealed that Xiao Lingyue was the Palace Master’s final disciple.
• Xiao Yan adopted Xiang Yuan as his ninety-first son after Xiang Yuan promised to marry Xiao Lingyue and follow the residence’s rules.
• Xiang Yuan defeated two of Xiao Yan’s adopted sons and fought He Yuanzhi to a tie, impressing all three with his strength and blade technique.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiang Yuan the divine saber Storm Mist, and Cheng Yuling exchanged the couple’s birth details with him, treating their marriage as settled.
• Xiao Lingyue sent Xiang Yuan an invitation asking him to open the door as soon as possible.

Xiang Yuan tricked Xiao Lingyue into discovering that he was engaged to her, with her parents’ approval, after revealing how he had met and won over her family. Xiao Lingyue left to visit her injured mother, but Xiang Yuan stopped her to prepare her for explaining the bite mark on his shoulder.

• Xiang Yuan prepared copies of Xiao Lingyue’s birth details and let her drink blood medicine while she visited him.
• Xiang Yuan told Xiao Lingyue that he had married and asked her to check whether his future wife’s birth details were compatible with his.
• Xiao Lingyue recognized her own birth details and learned that her brother Xiao He had tried to arrange the match, then Xiang Yuan revealed that her mother had provided the details and approved their marriage.
• Xiang Yuan explained that he had met Xiao Yan and Cheng Yuling, who accepted him as their son-in-law, and Xiao Lingyue reluctantly realized both her parents had agreed to the engagement.
• Xiao Lingyue set out to visit her injured mother, but Xiang Yuan showed her the bite mark on his shoulder and warned that she would need to explain it.

Xiang Yuan advanced his relationship with Xiao Lingyue, received Cheng Yuling’s support, and completed the tempering needed for an Innate Realm breakthrough. In the Dragon-Subduing Realm, he learned that Bai Yue’s lingering attachment might delay her ascension and went to examine her.

• Xiang Yuan confessed his feelings to Xiao Lingyue, who fled after knocking down the door and said she would not return that night.
• Cheng Yuling visited Xiang Yuan, gave him a protective jade bracelet, and persuaded him to write a love poem for Xiao Lingyue.
• Xiang Yuan trained with He Yuanzhi, completed his pre-breakthrough tempering, and delayed advancing until he could observe Bai Yue’s ascension.
• Xiang Yuan entered the Dragon-Subduing Realm and was mobbed by young disciples celebrating his fame as Li Xianyuan, the devilslayer.
• Ji Muqing told Xiang Yuan that Bai Yue had not invited witnesses because she disliked their criticism of him, and that her attachment might postpone her ascension.
• Xiang Yuan asked Ji Muqing to lead him to Bai Yue so he could check her condition.

Xiang Yuan helped Bai Yue overcome her romantic attachment and prepare to ascend, while Ji Muqing received the Dharma name White Heart and became the new head of Pure Moon Chan Heart Academy. Bai Yue reached the end of her cultivation in the Dragon-Subduing Realm, and an ascension passage appeared above Compassionate Ferry Salvation Peak.

• Bai Yue told Xiang Yuan she planned to leave the academy leadership to Mu Qing and admitted she feared ascending without him; Xiang Yuan promised to follow her to the higher realm.
• Xiang Yuan and Bai Yue reconciled after he teased and provoked her, and she chose the laywoman's robe before entering seclusion.
• Xiang Yuan assured Ji Muqing that she could ascend someday, and she resolved to cultivate toward joining him and Bai Yue.
• Three days later, Bai Yue bestowed the robe and Dharma name White Heart on Ji Muqing, making her the academy's new head.
• Bai Yue prepared to ascend while Xiang Yuan waited outside, and a glowing ascension passage opened over Compassionate Ferry Salvation Peak.

Lay Practitioner Bai Yue ascended from Pure Moon Chan Heart Academy, leaving Ji Muqing to lead the academy under Xiang Yuan’s guidance. Xiang Yuan broke through to the Innate realm, studied Ji Wuzhou’s paintings, and began to uncover new Heavenly Saber arts before puzzling over his path forward.

• Lay Practitioner Bai Yue activated a Guanyin-like protective Gang Qi and ascended through the halo as Ji Muqing, Xiang Yuan, and the academy’s disciples saw her off.
• Xiang Yuan told Ji Muqing to arrange a celebratory feast, gave her gold to support the academy, and later supplied her with blood medicine and cultivation advice.
• Xiang Yuan returned to the Dry Abyss Realm and entered the Innate realm in three seconds, then chose to strengthen his cultivation before opening a new world or seeking the Dragon-Subduing Realm’s upper realm.
• Xiang Yuan studied Ji Wuzhou’s paintings and comprehended the Heavenly Saber arts Lone Fishing on the Cold River and Vast Sky, One Hue.
• Xiang Yuan wondered what principle of heaven and earth suited his Formless Seal Method and opened the third painting to inspect its lines.

Xiang Yuan visited Ji Boli, his senior brother in the True Heart Dao, hoping to learn about divination and cultivating the principles of heaven and earth. Ji Boli explained the sect’s teachings and the Precelestial realms, while Xiang Yuan learned that the Formless Seal Method could not be passed on conventionally.

• Xiang Yuan arrived at the Ji Estate without an introduction letter and was turned away, but Ji Boli summoned him into a carriage and took him to a separate residence.
• Ji Boli described how family responsibilities, wives, and concubines had left him burdened by worldly affairs, and the two brothers quickly bonded over their shared complaints about their master.
• Ji Boli dismissed Xiang Yuan’s book on physiognomy as useless and explained that divination depended on talent and comprehending the laws of heaven and earth.
• Xiang Yuan asked how True Heart Dao disciples cultivated the principles of heaven and earth, and Ji Boli told him they did not all practice the Formless Seal Method, which could not be taught or copied by ordinary means.
• Ji Boli advised Xiang Yuan to copy the principles in the ghost-scribbles he had received and explained the Precelestial, Spirit Transformation, and Nether Communion realms.

Xiang Yuan studied the Cloud-Turning Rain-Overturning Palm and the laws of heaven and earth, gaining the Cloud-Seizing Hand but exhausting his Primordial Spirits. After a month of recovery, he received Ji Boli’s reforged Storm Mist Saber 2.0 and was taken along to a blind date at King Zhao Residence.

• Ji Boli explained how Innate cultivators could comprehend the laws of heaven and earth, gave Xiang Yuan the Cloud-Turning Rain-Overturning Palm manual, and agreed to reforge his saber with the fierce tiger’s intent.
• Xiang Yuan combined the palm technique with moves from other martial arts and renamed the resulting technique the Cloud-Seizing Hand.
• Using the third painting from Ji Wuzhou, Xiang Yuan perceived the lines and laws of heaven and earth, but the strain drained his three Primordial Spirits and left him unconscious.
• Ji Boli returned a month later with Storm Mist Saber 2.0, and Xiang Yuan restored his body with Life Return.
• Ji Boli took Xiang Yuan along as his distant older cousin to a blind date at King Zhao Residence and asked him to help wield a blade.

Ji Boli brought Xiang Yuan to King Zhao Residence’s matchmaking gathering, where Xiang Yuan unexpectedly revealed that he was Xiao Yan’s adopted son and Xiao Lingyue’s fiancé. The revelation left Ji Boli fearing he had entangled the Ji Clan in the court’s plans, while Xiao Qian welcomed the news about Xiao Yan’s ties to the Heavenly Saber Sect.

• Ji Boli explained that King Zhao’s matchmaking gathering was part of the court’s maneuvering against the three houses and urged Xiang Yuan to behave with restraint.
• At Golden Goblet Tower, Xiang Yuan devoured the banquet while Xiao Qian tried to learn about him and Ji Boli claimed he was Ji Wuzhou’s disciple.
• Ji Boli prompted Xiang Yuan to spar with Xiao Can, and Xiang Yuan returned with the Storm Mist Blade after defeating him.
• Xiao Qian recognized the Storm Mist Blade and discovered that Xiang Yuan was King Zhao’s ninety-first son, adopted son, and son-in-law.
• Ji Boli realized Xiang Yuan’s family ties had drawn him into King Zhao Residence’s affairs, while Xiao Qian celebrated his father’s connection to the Heavenly Saber Sect.

Ji Boli agreed to an alliance with Xiao Qian and used Xiang Yuan’s betrothal to propose a second marriage alliance between the Heavenly Martial Sect and the Xiao Clan. After escaping the negotiations, Xiang Yuan traveled to the Dragon-Subduing Realm, found no ascension passage for himself, and decided to use Ji Muqing’s instead.

• Ji Boli worried that the marriage alliance between Ji Wuzhou and King Zhao Residence could divide the Heavenly Sect families, then offered to help unite the Heavenly Martial Seven Lineages if Ji Wuzhou gained power.
• Ji Boli demanded a marriage alliance between the Heavenly Martial Sect and the Xiao Clan, proposing Xiang Yuan as a match for a Xiao Clan young lady; Xiao Qian agreed.
• Xiang Yuan fled when Xiao Qian called after him, while Xiao Lingyan accepted that her family might arrange her marriage for political reasons.
• Xiang Yuan traveled to Dezhou, used his Five Elements abilities to enter Jambu Gate, and arrived in the Dragon-Subduing Realm.
• Xiang Yuan found that no ascension passage appeared for him and decided to hitch a ride through Ji Muqing’s passage.

Xiang Yuan accelerated Ji Muqing’s cultivation until she was close to ascending, then left her to prepare the Pure Moon Chan Heart Academy to ascend together. After returning to the Dry Abyss Realm, he entered a modern urban world, where an S-rank demon attacked a city.

• Xiang Yuan taught Ji Muqing cultivation, gave her blood tonic, and used his true qi to speed its absorption over three days.
• Ji Muqing reached the threshold of ascension, and Xiang Yuan urged her to take the final step within half a month or he would ascend without her.
• Xiang Yuan decided to prepare supplements so the disciples of Pure Moon Chan Heart Academy could cultivate and ascend together to find Senior Sister.
• Xiang Yuan left Mute Village, traveled toward Dezhou, and practiced learning to borrow the power of heaven and earth before entering a new world through Jambu Gate.
• Xiang Yuan arrived in a modern city, discovered it was not his Earth, and began gathering information at an internet café.
• A nearby high-rise exploded, and Xiang Yuan spotted a winged tiger amid the flames as the café announced that the S-rank demon Qiongqi had been detected.

Xiang Yuan captured a Qiongqi demon and a rapid response squad member, then hypnotized them to learn that the demon invasion came from a contaminated continent across the sea and that humanity had rebuilt cultivation. He sent the woman to investigate the attacked pharmaceutical company and left her with orders to return home quickly.

• Qiongqi attacked a city high-rise, escaped the rapid response squad, and was eventually cornered in a forest after transforming again.
• Xiang Yuan crossed the cordon, defeated Qiongqi, and took the red-haired demon and a short-haired squad member to an unfinished building for questioning.
• Xiang Yuan learned that a meteor had created the Demon Continent, that demons served powerful Qiongqi leaders, and that the red-haired man had been sent to retrieve an unknown target from a pharmaceutical company's experimental warehouse.
• Xiang Yuan hypnotized the short-haired woman and learned that spiritual energy had returned, humanity had rebuilt cultivation, and a top Heaven Ranking expert was stationed in Hekang City.
• Xiang Yuan ordered the woman to investigate the pharmaceutical company and return home quickly, then continued questioning her about her living arrangements and computer.

Qin Chang returned home from a seven-day leave and found Xiang Yuan living there as her boyfriend, while Xiang Yuan secretly investigated a pharmaceutical company for a relic. After they drove to the company owner Sun Youwei’s villa, Xiang Yuan learned that the stolen relic bead had come from a tomb beneath the villa.

• Qin Chang prepared for vacation after recounting how a mysterious demon had defeated Zhao Yiyang and escaped the Rapid Response Squad.
• Qin Chang returned home and found Xiang Yuan there, then argued with him about his gaming and their relationship.
• Xiang Yuan examined Qin Chang’s pharmaceutical company records and noticed the owner’s history dealing in antiques.
• Qin Chang and Xiang Yuan drove to Sun Youwei’s remote villa to investigate the company and its relic research.
• Xiang Yuan used his methods to question Sun Youwei, who admitted that demons had taken a relic bead from a tomb beneath the villa.

Xiang Yuan searched Sun Youwei’s stripped tomb for a relic but found nothing, leaving him to plan a dangerous trip to the Demon Continent to take it from Qiongqi. After Yan Xun and Liu Yutan confronted him in Hekang City, Xiang Yuan defeated Yan Xun and faced Liu Yutan in a clash of their forces of heaven and earth.

• Sun Youwei told Xiang Yuan how he had found and secretly kept a relic, and Xiang Yuan searched fifty meters beneath the empty burial chamber without finding it.
• Xiang Yuan decided he would need to retrieve the relic from Qiongqi on the Demon Continent and thought about bringing Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er on a future trip.
• Xiang Yuan told Qin Chang that he had other girlfriends and was engaged, then walked away after she ordered him to leave.
• Yan Xun and Liu Yutan confronted Xiang Yuan, and Xiang Yuan used hypnosis to send Qin Chang away before fighting Yan Xun.
• Xiang Yuan overwhelmed Yan Xun and knocked him unconscious, then approached Liu Yutan, who merged with heaven and earth to manifest a lightning-wreathed golden giant.
• Xiang Yuan and Liu Yutan’s forces of heaven and earth collided.

Xiang Yuan defeated Liu Yutan’s ultimate techniques, learned that Liu Yutan had helped sabotage his assessment, and then hypnotized him to uncover the origins of his black-and-white technique. The chapter ended with Liu Yutan beginning to reveal the technique’s incantation in exchange for a Greater Restoration Pill.

• Xiang Yuan overwhelmed Liu Yutan’s force of heaven and earth, copied its laws, and summoned a golden-armored giant alongside a true cloud dragon and a White Tiger.
• Liu Yutan unleashed a black-and-white vortex that swallowed Xiang Yuan’s manifestations, then sent two soul-snatching specters after him; Xiang Yuan destroyed the White Impermanence but was struck by the Black Impermanence’s seal.
• Liu Yutan collapsed and ordered Qin Chang to kill Xiang Yuan, but Xiang Yuan revealed that Liu Yutan and a supervisor had sabotaged his assessment and tried to silence him.
• Xiang Yuan broke free of the Primordial Spirit seal, gave Liu Yutan a Great Restoration Pill, and hypnotized him to ask about his ultimate move.
• Liu Yutan identified the move as “The Division of Black and White, the Two Gods of Good and Evil,” created by Yellow Springs Daoist, and began giving Xiang Yuan its incantation in exchange for another Greater Restoration Pill.

After learning the yin-yang supreme art and settling into the Blue Star Realm under Li Xianyuan's identity, Xiang Yuan prepared to infiltrate the Demon Continent alone. He left Hekang City in a transport plane, claiming he would hunt demons while warning Liu Yutan not to follow.

• Xiang Yuan learned that the Divide of Black and White, the Two Gods of Good and Evil drew on yin and yang, memorized its formula, and studied a photograph of the Yellow Springs Daoist.
• Yan Xun arranged official records for Xiang Yuan as Li Xianyuan, and Xiang Yuan joined the Rapid Response Squad as Hekang City's deputy supervisor.
• Xiang Yuan planned to master the supreme art, sharpen his combat skills against human Xiantian experts, and have Qin Chang buy clothes for Xiao Lingyue, Chan'er, and Lay Practitioner Bai Yue.
• Ten days later, Xiang Yuan prepared a transport plane for a solo trip to the Demon Continent while Liu Yutan questioned his motives and warned him of the danger.
• Xiang Yuan told Liu Yutan he intended to subdue demons, warned him against sending other experts, and took off toward the Demon Continent.

Xiang Yuan entered the Demon Continent, defeated a giant eagle, and killed it when Qingluan arrived. He then prepared to fight the SSS-rank demon, hoping to tame it as a mount.

• Xiang Yuan crossed the Demon Continent’s coastline and claimed the giant eagle’s territory in the name of Lord Qiongqi.
• The giant eagle attacked Xiang Yuan, who broke its neck and defeated it and its swarm of underlings.
• Xiang Yuan offered to spare the giant eagle if it became his mount, but killed it when Qingluan approached.
• Qingluan froze the surrounding land and confronted Xiang Yuan, who called on Cold Blood and prepared to fight.
• Cold Blood drew the Storm Mist blade and charged at Qingluan, intending to defeat rather than kill her.

Xiang Yuan and Cold Blood fought the SSS-class demon Qingluan, overwhelming it with blood-and-blade techniques before sparing it when it swore allegiance. The chapter left Xiang Yuan riding his new mount toward its nest while Qingluan nervously promised it would soon be able to take human form.

• Cold Blood opened the fight with Lone Star Chasing Moon, and Qingluan countered by raising an enormous iceberg of ice crystals.
• Cold Blood used Killing Intent Like a Blade and Heavenly Blade techniques to break Qingluan's resistance, shatter its beak, and sever a wing and claw.
• Cold Blood tore Qingluan apart and began forming The Divide of Black and White, but Doubi and Steady shoved him offline before he could kill it.
• Xiang Yuan demanded that Qingluan swear loyalty, then helped it reattach its body after it pledged to be his master.
• Xiang Yuan climbed onto Qingluan and ordered it to take him to its nest, while Qingluan nervously claimed it would soon be able to transform into human form.

Xiang Yuan learned that a demon-core meteorite had transformed the Blue Star Realm and that Baize and Qiongqi had recovered a second relic, which they planned to use to dispel the demons’ demonic qi. After learning the relic might already be headed for the meteor impact crater, Xiang Yuan rushed there with Qingluan.

• Xiang Yuan questioned Qingluan about its immortal body and learned that a meteorite carrying a demon core had changed the Demon Continent and created the ten immortal demons.
• Xiang Yuan took several jars of Qingluan’s blood and kept Qingluan’s demon core despite its pleas to have it returned.
• Qingluan told Xiang Yuan that Baize, an unrecorded SSS-class demon who could foresee fortune and misfortune, had helped Qiongqi find and retrieve a second relic.
• Qingluan explained that Baize believed throwing both relics into the meteor impact crater would erase the demonic qi afflicting the demons.
• Xiang Yuan and Qingluan reached Qiongqi’s lair, learned that Qiongqi and Baize were already gone, and headed for the red pillar of light at the center of the Demon Continent.