Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan accepted Gongsun Lin’s challenge to spar with his cultivation suppressed to the Dou Zong level. After Gongsun Lin gained the upper hand, Xiao Yan turned the fight around and prepared his new Three-and-a-half Color Buddha’s Fury Lotus Flame.

• Xiao Yan agreed to fight Gongsun Lin, who suppressed his cultivation to the level of a newly advanced Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan attacked with the Flame Splitting Wave Crushing Ruler, but Gongsun Lin blocked it and countered with his wooden sword.
• Xiao Yan evaded Gongsun Lin’s thrust, then released his Mysterious Heavy Ruler to avoid its destruction and used Eight Extremes Collapse to knock Gongsun Lin off balance.
• Xiao Yan struck Gongsun Lin with his Nine Layered Fire Rings, then activated his Bone Wings, Green Lotus Transformation, and Dou Di bloodline to raise his strength.
• Xiao Yan gathered four flames, including a flame catalyzed from the remnant Yin Yang Twin Flames, and prepared his Three-and-a-half Color Buddha’s Fury Lotus Flame.

Xiao Yan fought Gongsun Lin in a trial, using his Heavenly Flames and Three Thousand Lightning Movement to survive the older man's sword technique and land a four-colored Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame. After Gongsun Lin healed him, Xiao Yan asked about Liuli and learned she had entered seclusion for several years.

• Gongsun Lin broke through Xiao Yan's Nine Heavens Firefall Palm and asked how he controlled multiple Heavenly Flames.
• Gongsun Lin unleashed his Earth-tier High Rank Dou Technique, White Rainbow Piercing the Sun, as Xiao Yan formed a four-colored Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan created two lightning doppelgangers to evade the sword strike, but Gongsun Lin's sword radiance swallowed all three figures.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the Light Pillar with the Fire Lotus ready and threw it at Gongsun Lin, who rescued him from the blast's confined space.
• Gongsun Lin healed Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan asked about Liuli; Gongsun Lin said she had begun cultivation and would remain in seclusion for three or four years.

Liuli endured brutal Crimson Fire Whip training under her master to prepare her body for a future heart replacement. After recovering in the Purification Altar, she learned she had survived seventy-five lashes, and her training continued as another year passed.

• The Old Man stopped whipping the unconscious Liuli, healed her wounds with medicinal liquid, and carried her from the hall.
• Liuli woke in the Purification Altar and learned she had endured seventy-five lashes and slept for three days.
• Liuli recalled that her master was preparing her to replace her original heart with a flawless Sword Heart, using whip training and Life Origin Fluid to strengthen her body.
• The Old Man told Liuli she could delay the heart replacement and skip the Jian Dian, but she still had to continue training.
• Liuli asked to cook before returning to training, and the Old Man allowed it and requested chopsticks.
• Another year passed.

Liuli underwent the final stage of the Heart Transformation Art, destroying her original heart and forming a transparent heart from Life Force and the light her Master provided. After enduring severe pain and near collapse, she survived the most dangerous stage, and her cultivation began rising rapidly.

• The Black-robed Old Man warned Liuli that the final stage could not be stopped, and she chose to proceed so she could cultivate toward becoming a Dou Saint.
• Liuli used the Life Origin Fluid in the Purification Altar Pool to break down her heart, and the Old Man fused the ball of light into her chest to form a transparent heart.
• The new heart consumed the pool's Life Force and drained Liuli's blood and Dou Di bloodline, so the Old Man replenished the pool and infused her with Soul Power when she nearly lost consciousness.
• The transparent heart compressed Liuli's blood into a crystal-like mass, then pumped it through her body to restore her blood vessels and vitality.
• Liuli survived the dangerous stage as Dou Qi and Sword Qi erupted from her body, and her One-star Dou Zun cultivation began rising rapidly.

As the Sword Clan prepared for its Jian Dian, a young Ling Clan girl worried over her clan’s decline. Liuli emerged from two years of seclusion with her Dou Qi restored and new strength, then hurried to Jian City for the ceremony.

• A young Ling Clan girl compared the clan’s dwindling strength with the Sword Clan’s many Dou Saints and wondered whether the Ling Clan still had time to recover.
• Liuli rushed out of seclusion and discovered that her Dou Qi had returned, her cultivation had reached Nine-star Dou Zun, and her Soul Power had reached Great Perfection of Spirit Realm.
• Liuli tested her Sword Heart, which raised her aura to peak Six-turn Dou Zun, and realized she could contend with powerful peak Dou Zuns.
• Liuli flew to Jian City, where concealed Sword Clan Dou Saint elders recognized her and withdrew their auras.
• Liuli composed herself and headed toward the central plaza as the Jian Dian was about to begin.

At Jian Dian, Liuli drew Hun Xuzi’s attention and Gongsun Huai challenged him, revealing the Sword Clan elder’s overwhelming strength. The ceremony began with the selection of participants, and the Sword Clan’s young prodigies gathered alongside representatives from the other Ancient Clans.

• Liuli surveyed the packed Central Square and watched the Soul Clan delegation, where Hun Xuzi’s gaze nearly overwhelmed her until Gongsun Huai intervened.
• Gongsun Huai confronted Hun Xuzi over targeting his niece and challenged him to withstand three moves in the void.
• Hun Xuzi returned badly weakened and realized Gongsun Huai had reached the Eight-star Dou Sheng realm.
• Gongsun Sanbu announced the start of Jian Dian and explained the participant slots as golden lights descended from the Sea of Clouds.
• Gongsun Lan led the Sword Clan’s selected participants into the square while Liuli stayed at the back of the group.
• Representatives of the Gu, Soul, Yan, Lei, Yao, Shi, and Ling Clans joined the gathered Sword Clan prodigies.

The Jian Dian began, and its participants were scattered across a dangerous secret realm where they had to reach its center and seize one of ten Commander's Flags. Ling Feiyu set out from the realm's edge, while Liuli faced the first trial, a deadly Sword Qi Storm.

• Liuli saw Ling Feiyu among the gathered participants and recognized her as a talented Ling Clan prodigy.
• Gongsun Sanbu explained the secret realm's rules, distributed Jade Talismans, and began the Jian Dian.
• Ling Feiyu awoke in a canyon at the realm's edge, assessed the powerful competitors, and cautiously headed for the exit.
• Liuli used Wind Breath Barrier to defend herself from the secret realm's first trial, the Sword Qi Storm.

Liuli encountered Ling Feiyu struggling against the Sword Qi Storm in the Jian Dian trial and offered to help her in exchange for a chance to visit the Ling Realm. After learning Liuli was Gongsun Lin’s daughter, Ling Feiyu agreed to seek permission, and Liuli teleported to her side.

• Liuli endured the Sword Qi Storm and sensed Ling Feiyu trapped in a pit with her Dou Qi and recovery pills exhausted.
• Liuli offered Ling Feiyu help in exchange for visiting the Ling Realm, and Ling Feiyu agreed to try to obtain permission.
• Liuli revealed that her father was Gongsun Lin, prompting Ling Feiyu to recognize the value of befriending the Sword Clan leader’s daughter.
• Liuli offered to escort Ling Feiyu through the storm instead of giving her pills, and Ling Feiyu accepted.
• Liuli used Absolute Shadow Flash three times to reach Ling Feiyu’s pit and joined her inside.

Liuli and Ling Feiyu advanced through the Sword Qi Storm while discussing their ages and cultivation. At the secret realm’s central platform, Gongsun Lan clashed with Lei Dong, Gu Qingyang, and Hun Feng over the ten Commander’s Flags, and the other three prepared to let Gongsun Lan and Hun Feng wear each other down.

• Liuli told Ling Feiyu that they had to seize a Commander’s Flag within twelve hours, then revealed she was eight years older than her.
• Liuli grew irritated when Ling Feiyu reacted with disbelief, and she hurried ahead through the Sword Qi Storm.
• Gongsun Lan offered the other three only two of the ten flags, while Lei Dong and Gu Qingyang challenged his proposal.
• Hun Feng questioned where the Sword Clan’s Divine Grade Bloodline was, and Gongsun Lan summoned thousands of blades to face the three rivals.
• Lei Dong, Gu Qingyang, and Hun Feng attacked Gongsun Lan with lightning, the Emperor Seal Art, and dark mist, while Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong slowed their attacks to let Gongsun Lan weaken Hun Feng.

Gongsun Lan unleashed the Great Void Divine Sword against Hun Feng, devastating the secret realm and leaving Hun Feng’s fate uncertain. As the other geniuses rushed for the flags, Lei Dong claimed one before a pink-clad woman suddenly attacked him.

• Hun Feng’s Dark Mist Wraith fought through Gongsun Lan’s sword rain before Gongsun Lan summoned the Great Void Divine Sword and drove it down upon the battlefield.
• Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong fled the sword’s locked range, while Liuli protected Ling Feiyu and led her away from the blast.
• The colossal sword struck the ground and exploded, devastating the secret realm; Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong guessed Hun Feng had been eliminated.
• Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong rushed with other contestants toward the platform bearing ten flags, and Lei Dong grabbed the first flag.
• A pink-clad woman attacked Lei Dong with a Water-Blue Long Sword, and he barely dodged her thrust.

Liuli won three flags in the Jian Realm, escaped Lei Dong after he fell in love with her at first sight, and gave a flag to Ling Feiyu. The two hid to watch the remaining contest, leaving the Sword Clan with a strong advantage heading into the Finals.

• Lei Dong became captivated by Liuli and told Gu Qingyang he planned to ask his father to propose marriage to her.
• Liuli recognized Lei Dong, guessed he had taken a fancy to her, and used Absolute Shadow Flash to escape when he tried to approach.
• Lei Dong was left holding nothing but Liuli's afterimage, but vowed to pursue her after reaching the peak of the continent.
• Liuli returned to Ling Feiyu, gave her one of the three flags, and explained that Hun Feng's elimination had opened a place in the Finals.
• Liuli used her Soul Power to conceal herself and Ling Feiyu so they could watch the contest from the sidelines.

Liuli passed a flag to Gongsun Lan, helping the Sword Clan secure seven flags and sending seven of its members into the Jian Dian Finals. The ten finalists began a free-for-all, and Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong planned to target the weaker Sword Clan members first.

• Liuli gave Gongsun Lan a flag and left him to defend the Sword Clan's claim to the remaining flags.
• After twelve hours, the participants returned to Jian City's plaza, where Gongsun Sanbu announced the ten finalists and promised Eighth-grade pills to those eliminated.
• Hun Xuzi told Hun Feng to return the Sub-flame, and Hun Feng vowed inwardly to take revenge on Gongsun Lan.
• Gongsun Sanbu explained that the Finals would be a free-for-all, with the first five to be defeated advancing, then enclosed the plaza in a barrier and started the match.
• Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong recognized the Sword Clan's numerical advantage and planned to bypass Gongsun Lan and attack the other Sword Clan finalists.

Liuli and Gongsun Lan began fighting Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong for the Jian Dian’s top five spots, while Gu Qingyang secretly prepared a wide-area attack. Elsewhere, An Yang learned that he would be released from confinement for a task in the East Sea Secret Realm.

• Liuli insisted on fighting and agreed to face Gu Qingyang while Gongsun Lan challenged Lei Dong.
• Gongsun Lan and Lei Dong clashed in the sky with Sword Qi and lightning.
• Gu Qingyang accepted Liuli’s challenge, then unleashed the five-layer Emperor Seal Art, intending to strike the other Sword Clan geniuses as well.
• A white-haired Old Man told An Yang that the Master had a task for him and delivered a letter.
• An Yang read the letter about the East Sea Secret Realm and eagerly anticipated killing someone.

Liuli defeated Gu Qingyang after exposing his techniques, while Gongsun Lan overcame Lei Dong in the sky. The Jian Dian, Ancient Clan, and Lei clan geniuses were eliminated, and Ling Feiyu slipped away from the plaza.

• Gu Qingyang unleashed the Emperor Seal Art, but Liuli’s White Sword Qi forced him to abandon his preparation and clash with her attack.
• Hun Xuzi and Hun Feng discussed whether Liuli or Gongsun Lan posed the greater future threat to the Soul Clan, and Hun Xuzi considered targeting Gongsun Lan and obtaining a piece of jade from the Sword Clan.
• Liuli activated her Clan Mark after exchanging dozens of moves with Gu Qingyang and defeated him, leaving her sword at his throat as he admitted defeat.
• Gongsun Lan defeated Lei Dong, who collapsed after demanding another fight, eliminating the Jian Dian, Ancient Clan, and Lei clan geniuses.
• Ling Feiyu quietly retreated from the plaza while the others watched Liuli and Gongsun Lan.

Liuli defeated the remaining outsiders and declined to claim a Sword Tomb cultivation spot, instead helping Gongsun Pan secure one. After the Jian Dian ended, she resolved to pursue Nine Revolutions to Sainthood so she could face the coming upheaval alongside Xiao Yan.

• Liuli defeated Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong, leaving eight contestants and ensuring the Sword Clan would dominate the final rankings.
• Liuli told Gongsun Lan she would give up her Sword Tomb spot and selected Gongsun Pan to receive it; Gongsun Lan insisted she still claim a top-five ranking.
• Gongsun Pan and another Sword Clan contestant withdrew, while Ling Feiyu left the platform, leaving five Sword Clan prodigies to enter the Sword Tomb.
• Gongsun Sanbu announced the Jian Dian's conclusion and gave the five finalists transmission tokens for their cultivation in the Sword Tomb.
• Liuli skipped the banquet and planned to reach Nine Revolutions to Sainthood, resolving to face the continent's coming turmoil with Xiao Yan.

Liuli woke after spending the night clutching Xiao Yan’s robe and imagined making him wait when they met again. In the Central Continent, Xiao Yan refined a pill to restore strength and strengthened his puppet, then asked Ye Zhong when they would leave for Sacred Pill City.

• Liuli woke, blushed at the mess on her bed, and realized she had passed out after doing unspeakable things while holding Xiao Yan’s robe.
• Liuli vowed to punish Xiao Yan by refusing to let him touch her for three months, but a servant interrupted her fantasy and called her to eat.
• Xiao Yan used Four-colored Pill Lightning to temper the Earth Demon Puppet, turning nearly half its silver body gold and bringing it closer to becoming a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Yan refined a Poria Qing Pill that could restore a weakened Dou Venerate’s strength and planned to use it to help Old Yao recover.
• Ye Zhong congratulated Xiao Yan on refining an Eighth-grade pill, and Xiao Yan asked when they would set out for Sacred Pill City.

Liuli prepared to enter seclusion and spent her last evening before cultivation thanking the Sword Clan elders with a feast and card games. After the gathering, Gongsun Lin reminded her to focus on reaching Saint, while Liuli raised Xiao Yan and revealed she had sent an elder to the Pill Region.

• Liuli arranged a secluded cultivation space with dense Heaven and Earth Energy and invited the Sword Clan elders to a feast before entering seclusion.
• Gongsun Kuanglei lost at poker, paid the winners with a ninth-order Sky-Burning Demonic Dragon Demonic Core, and told Liuli the treasure had originally been meant for her.
• Liuli saw off the elders and found Gongsun Lin waiting in her courtyard, where he advised her to take the Ninth-grade Pill at Nine-turn Dou Zun.
• Liuli cautiously brought up Xiao Yan, and Gongsun Lin revealed he knew she had sent an elder to the Pill Region.
• Liuli admitted she had given Elder Chunxiao two Eighth-grade pills for help, and Gongsun Lin urged her to prioritize breaking through to Saint.

Two years after Liuli began cultivating, Xiao Yan’s rise made him a target of Soul Hall, which attacked Starfall Pavilion while Old Yao reconstructed his body. Old Yao emerged from seclusion just as the Heavenly Venerables threatened Xiao Yan and the pavilion.

• Liuli entered Gongsun Lin’s small space to cultivate toward Dou Sheng, while two years passed and the Central Continent grew turbulent.
• Xiao Yan won the Pill Tower’s Alchemist Convention, subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame, became Starfall Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master, and gained treasures in a Dou Sheng secret realm.
• Soul Hall attacked Starfall Pavilion, where Xiao Yan fought Mo Yu and sensed a stronger enemy concealed nearby.
• The Eighth Heavenly Venerable Qiu Di joined Mo Yu and threatened to destroy Starfall Pavilion unless Xiao Yan and his master surrendered.
• Old Yao emerged after his resurrection succeeded and told Xiao Yan to help the others while he faced Qiu Di.
• Xiao Yan’s allies defeated the other Heavenly Venerables, leaving Old Yao to confront Qiu Di.

Old Yao revealed that he had reached the Half-Saint realm and crushed the Soul Hall forces attacking Starfall Pavilion. Eighth Heavenly Venerable Qiu Di was left trapped and alone as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yan watched as Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin gained the upper hand against White Heavenly Venerable while the other battles continued.
• Old Yao shattered Qiu Di and Ninth Heavenly Venerable’s ice attack with a small stone, killing Ninth Heavenly Venerable with it.
• Old Yao announced that he was a Half-Saint, leaving Qiu Di badly shaken and the onlookers stunned.
• Old Yao caught the fleeing Black-White Heavenly Venerables and burned them to ash with white flames.
• Old Yao sealed the space around Qiu Di, leaving him unable to escape after the other Soul Hall attackers were defeated.

After the Soul Hall retreated, Xiao Yan cultivated at the Starfall Pavilion and spoke with Old Yao about returning the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. Old Yao told him Nalan Yanran had come to see him, while elsewhere Gongsun Liuli emerged from a crystal and entered the Dou Sheng realm.

• Qiu Di took his own life, and the Soul Hall's campaign against the Starfall Pavilion ended in defeat.
• The Starfall Pavilion gained prestige and expanded as Xiao Yan entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Old Yao offered Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, but Xiao Yan urged him to keep it until after reaching Dou Sheng.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran had come to the Starfall Pavilion, and Xiao Yan went to see her.
• Gongsun Liuli emerged from the crystal within the Sword Clan's small space and stepped into the Dou Sheng realm.