Chapter Summaries

Lin Feiyan invited Jiang Yuechu to join a sect trial after Jiang overpowered her, and the group left the Azure Boundary Sect aboard a flying boat. As Chen Yuan tried to learn what Jiang could do, her strength and cultivation remained a mystery.

• Lin Feiyan explained that her group needed one more person for a sect trial, and Jiang Yuechu agreed to leave with them without asking for details.
• Chen Yuan, Su Liu, and Gong Shaoqi joined Lin Feiyan and Jiang Yuechu, then introduced themselves as inner sect disciples of the Azure Boundary Sect.
• The five boarded a flying boat and set out, with Lin Feiyan and Gong Shaoqi excitedly watching the scenery while Jiang Yuechu rested.
• Chen Yuan suggested that everyone share their abilities so they could prepare for danger, and discreetly tried to assess the mysterious Jiang Yuechu.

Aboard the flying boat, the cultivators introduced their abilities before Chen Yuan explained their trial: investigating a demon that had attacked Yellow Mountain City. The Xu Clan’s request for help seemed disproportionate to a Fourth Rank threat, and Chen Yuan revealed the clan had enough strength that the demon’s true danger was likely greater.

• Lin Feiyan introduced herself as a Seventh Rank Chess-Player who specialized in offense, while the young man beside her said he was Lin Feiyan, a Fifth Rank cultivator skilled in formations and talismans.
• Jiang Yuechu struggled to name a specialty and answered that she was good at killing enemies, leaving Chen Yuan, Su Liu, and Lin Feiyan stunned.
• Chen Yuan introduced himself and Su Liu as low-ranked cultivators with broad but basic skills, then explained that ordinary cultivators learned many arts to survive dangerous situations.
• Chen Yuan said the Xu Clan of Yellow Mountain City had requested help with a demon whose aura seemed to be at the Fourth Rank of Chess-Player.
• Lin Feiyan dismissed the demon as an easy opponent, but Chen Yuan warned that the Xu Clan’s Fifth Rank head and powerful elders would not have sought help over a mere Fourth Rank demon.

Chen Yuan warned Lin Feiyan and Su Liu that the Xu Clan’s request for help concealed a greater danger, but Lin Feiyan rushed into the clan’s Ancestral Hall and interrupted Xu Liunian’s confrontation with Xu Chunnian. The chapter ended with Lin Feiyan taking the Xu Clan’s seat of authority and demanding that everyone speak quickly.

• Chen Yuan explained that the Xu Clan’s vague request for aid suggested the demon was stronger than the Fourth Rank, while Lin Feiyan insisted she could handle any threat.
• At the Xu Clan’s Ancestral Hall, Xu Liunian humiliated the clan and confronted the weakened Xu Chunnian, revealing that he had summoned help from the Azure Boundary Sect using the clan head’s seal.
• Xu Liunian blamed Xu Chunnian for his mother’s murder and prepared to kill him before five newcomers entered the hall, including Lin Feiyan and Chen Yuan.
• The Xu Clan members recognized the Azure Boundary Sect attire of two newcomers but stayed silent under Xu Liunian’s threatening gaze.
• Lin Feiyan ignored Xu Liunian’s greeting, sat in the Xu Clan’s seat of authority, and told everyone to speak quickly.

Jiang Yuechu intervened in the Xu Clan’s succession dispute, dismissing Xu Liunian’s appeal to the Azure Boundary Sect’s rules. She revealed that she was a guest elder of the sect and questioned why she could not interfere.

• Xu Chunnian tried to ask Jiang Yuechu for help, but Xu Liunian punched him and ordered the visitors to wait elsewhere.
• Jiang Yuechu told Xu Liunian to let Xu Chunnian continue and rejected his claim that the sect’s rules barred her from intervening.
• Xu Liunian questioned whether Jiang Yuechu was even from the Azure Boundary Sect, and Chen Yuan realized she had never identified herself.
• Jiang Yuechu produced an Azure Dao Tablet and told Chen Yuan that she was a guest elder of the Azure Boundary Sect.
• Jiang Yuechu asked whether she was not allowed to interfere.

Jiang Yuechu revealed herself as an Azure Boundary Sect guest elder and subdued Xu Liunian while Xu Chunnian exposed his scheme to fabricate demon activity. When Xu Liunian summoned a Demon Palace and a powerful demon approached, Jiang Yuechu eagerly told the others to wait and see what happened.

• Jiang Yuechu's guest elder status stunned Xu Liunian and the others, and she stopped Xu Liunian from attacking Xu Chunnian by pinning him down with a galaxy-like force.
• Xu Chunnian revealed that Xu Liunian had drained the blood essence of clan members and fabricated demon traces to lure experts into the city.
• Jiang Yuechu learned there were probably no demons and withdrew her restraint, leaving the Xu Household's remaining affairs to the others.
• Xu Liunian broke free, summoned an illusory Demon Palace with four blood-lit Dao Chess Pieces, and called forth a demon approaching Yellow Mountain City.
• Chen Yuan and Lin Feiyan prepared to attack Xu Liunian, but Jiang Yuechu sat up eagerly and told them to wait and see.

Lin Feiyan faced the Azure Water Golden-Eyed Demon while Xu Liunian transformed and attacked the people in the Xu Clan Ancestral Hall. Jiang Yuechu reappeared and subdued Xu Liunian with her staff, leaving the demon battle unresolved.

• The Azure Water Golden-Eyed Demon crashed outside the Xu Clan Ancestral Hall and challenged everyone inside.
• Lin Feiyan stepped forward to fight the Seventh Rank demon, but she struggled to defend herself when it attacked.
• Xu Liunian drained a Xu Clan member to raise his cultivation and surrounded Chen Yuan, Su Liu, and the pale-faced boy with blood-controlled clansmen.
• Chen Yuan shielded his group as a thunderous impact struck the hall, and he saw Jiang Yuechu pin Xu Liunian to the ground with her staff.

Jiang Yuechu subdued Xu Liunian with the Ten Directions Mountain and River Staff while Lin Feiyan struggled against the Azure Water Golden-Eyed Demon. Jiang Yuechu arrived to shield Lin Feiyan, and a broken sword appeared to drive the demon back.

• Jiang Yuechu smashed Xu Liunian back into the pit and left him alive, hoping to uncover his accomplices.
• The Azure Water Golden-Eyed Demon pressed Lin Feiyan, whose panic led her to cast the Cleansing Clothes Incantation instead of an attack spell.
• Jiang Yuechu appeared between Lin Feiyan and the water dragon, and her white robes dispersed its attack.
• The Azure Water Golden-Eyed Demon lunged at Jiang Yuechu, but an unseen force made it twist away from a battered sword hanging in the air.

Jiang Yuechu revealed overwhelming strength as she fought the Seventh Rank Azure Water Golden-Eyed Demon and drove it into a desperate retreat. She struck the demon down, and a system message appeared confirming its death and offering to record it.

• Lin Feiyan urged Jiang Yuechu to retreat while she held off the demon, but Jiang Yuechu ordered her to protect the Xu Clan instead.
• Jiang Yuechu unleashed her power and struck the Azure Water Golden-Eyed Demon with her staff, shattering its scales and knocking it down.
• Chen Yuan and Lin Feiyan watched in shock as Jiang Yuechu overwhelmed the Seventh Rank demon, and Lin Feiyan went to the Ancestral Hall.
• The wounded demon tried to flee toward the Great Marsh, but Jiang Yuechu attacked with the Six-Turn Heavenly Moat and the broken sword blocked its escape.
• Jiang Yuechu struck the demon from behind, and a system message reported that she had killed it and asked whether to record the unrecorded demon.

Jiang Yuechu defeated the demon threatening the Xu Clan and confronted the wounded Xu Liunian, who insulted the Azure Boundary Sect before she killed him. Lin Feiyan wondered what the two had communicated and grew worried about the matter.

• Chen Yuan, Su Liu, and Gong Shaoqi bowed to Jiang Yuechu after witnessing her slay the Great Demon, while Xu Chunnian and the surviving Xu Clan members thanked her for saving them.
• Xu Chunnian promised to punish Xu Liunian for betraying the clan and attacking the Azure Boundary Sect, but Jiang Yuechu said she wanted to question him.
• Jiang Yuechu approached the injured Xu Liunian, who refused to speak and silently accepted his defeat.
• Jiang Yuechu leaned close to Xu Liunian, then accused him of insulting the Azure Boundary Sect and killed him with the Ten Directions Mountain and River Staff.
• Lin Feiyan wondered whether Jiang Yuechu and Xu Liunian had communicated through voice transmission and worried about what the matter might involve.

After Jiang Yuechu killed the Seven-Child Great Demon, the Xu Clan offered her a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Soul to persuade her to stay in Yellow Mountain City for the night. As the group celebrated, Chen Yuan suggested the demon’s rare bloodline might connect it to the Southern Immortal Palace.

• Jiang Yuechu killed the Seven-Child Great Demon, and Xu Chunnian thanked her and invited the Azure Boundary Sect cultivators to stay.
• Xu Chunnian offered Jiang Yuechu a Dao-Integration Material, a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Soul containing the essence of Water, and she agreed to stay one night.
• At the Xu Clan’s feast, Xu Chunnian gave Jiang Yuechu the Ice Soul and presented gifts to Chen Yuan, Su Liu, Lin Feiyan, and Gong Shaoqi.
• Jiang Yuechu asked where the demon had come from, and Xu Chunnian said he had never seen or heard of it.
• Chen Yuan noted the demon’s pure demonic power and rare bloodline and suggested it might be connected to the Southern Immortal Palace.

Jiang Yuechu used the Azure Water Golden-Crystal Beast’s gift to merge its Demon Form into a new Dao Chess Piece, then strengthened it with several water-dwelling Great Demons. The piece reached Immortal-Grade, while Jiang Yuechu remained at the remote mountain outside Yellow Mountain City.

• Jiang Yuechu examined the panel’s new Chess Control gift after recording the Azure Water Golden-Crystal Beast, noting the high cost had left her with little Dao Cultivation.
• Jiang Yuechu left the Xu Clan’s courtyard and went to a remote mountain to form a Dao Chess Piece using the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Soul.
• Jiang Yuechu merged the Azure Water Golden-Crystal Beast’s Demon Form into the piece, which became a powerful Spirit-Grade Dao Chess Piece.
• Jiang Yuechu pulled the Demon Forms of Immortal Lord Guanlan, Immortal Lord Blackwater, the Green-Armored Giant Crab, and the Red-Tailed Water Ape into her Qi Sea to strengthen the piece.
• The Dao Chess Piece transformed amid a purple-gold heavenly phenomenon and reached Immortal-Grade.

After an Immortal-Grade Dao Chess Piece appeared near Yellow Mountain City, Chen Yuan and the others suspected Guest Elder Jiang had created it. As the group departed, Lin Feiyan invited Jiang Yuechu to travel with her and her junior brother, tempting her with news of a demon-filled region containing a Dao-Integration Material.

• Xu Chunnian and cultivators from Yellow Mountain City rushed to the mountain, where Chen Yuan and the others recognized the lingering aura as that of an Immortal-Grade Dao Chess Piece.
• Gong Shaoqi suggested that Guest Elder Jiang might have caused the phenomenon, and Lin Feiyan ended their speculation and led everyone back to the city.
• The next morning, Jiang Yuechu and the Azure Boundary Sect disciples departed Yellow Mountain City after Xu Chunnian thanked them for helping the Xu Clan.
• After they left the Fifty Thousand Mile Great Marsh, Lin Feiyan said she and her junior brother would split off to continue tempering their Dao hearts by hunting lesser demons.
• Lin Feiyan invited Jiang Yuechu to travel with them and revealed that a dangerous demon-filled region in the sect's southern lands contained a Dao-Integration Material, prompting Jiang Yuechu to ask for details.

In Immortal-Staying Valley, Old Dog Demon delivered a captive old man to two Grey Wolf Demons, who took him away rather than let Old Dog Demon meet Second Young Master. Lin Feiyan, Jiang Yuechu, and their companion watched from hiding, and Jiang Yuechu decided to follow the demons.

• Old Dog Demon brought a captured old man to a hidden valley in Immortal-Staying Valley.
• Two wolf demons arrived and demanded the captive, and Old Dog Demon reluctantly handed him over after failing to secure a chance to serve Second Young Master.
• The wolf demons took the old man away and left Old Dog Demon behind to curse them.
• Lin Feiyan admitted she had lured Jiang Yuechu to the valley seeking protection, then worried about the wolf demons' strength.
• Jiang Yuechu told Lin Feiyan and their companion to follow the demons.

Jiang Yuechu captured an old black dog demon and questioned him about the two Wolf Demons, learning they guarded the Second Young Master of Southern Immortal Palace. Lin Feiyan recognized the name and realized their casual trip had brought them into the path of a notorious figure in Cloud Dream Haven.

• Lin Feiyan and Gong Shaoqi urged Jiang Yuechu to target the weaker old dog rather than pursue the two Wolf Demons, but Jiang Yuechu descended into the valley without explaining her plan.
• Jiang Yuechu subdued the old black dog with one strike and held a remnant sword to his brow to make him answer her questions.
• The old dog said the two Wolf Demons were the Second Young Master's personal guards and each had Eighth Rank of Chess-Player Realm cultivation.
• Lin Feiyan and Gong Shaoqi reacted with alarm to the Second Young Master's title, and Lin Feiyan told Jiang Yuechu that she knew who he was.

In a prison beneath Immortal-Staying Valley, True Lord Xuanyang reunited with fellow prisoner Ancestor Xuanming and learned they had both been captured after crossing into Cloud Dream Haven. They suspected a Second Young Master was deliberately targeting outsiders, but remained helpless in captivity.

• Two Wolf Demons of the Eighth Rank of Chess-Player threw the old man into a restricted cage in Immortal-Staying Valley.
• The old man recognized the bloodied prisoner in the corner as True Lord Xuanyang, who recognized him as Ancestor Xuanming.
• True Lord Xuanyang explained that demons had captured him before he reached the Azure Boundary Sect, while Ancestor Xuanming said an Old Dog Demon had defeated him.
• True Lord Xuanyang suspected that the Second Young Master had specifically ordered the capture of cultivators who crossed realms.
• Ancestor Xuanming and True Lord Xuanyang lamented their defeat and fell silent in the cage.

The Southern Immortal Palace’s Second Young Master learned that his sister had been confined after her husband, a Carp Spirit, was killed, then discovered that his agent and the Azure Water Golden-Eyed Demon had vanished. He ordered the old turtle to investigate and revealed that he was gathering World-Breakers to claim the Dao Painting and contest his elder brother for power.

• The Second Young Master emerged from the marsh after advancing his cultivation, and the old turtle congratulated him.
• The old turtle reported that the Old Palace Master had helped the Azure Boundary Sect kill the Little Palace Mistress’s Carp Spirit husband and confined her to her chambers.
• The Second Young Master dismissed his sister’s troubles and asked about the Xu Clan agent’s mission.
• The old turtle revealed that contact with the agent and the Azure Water Golden-Eyed Demon had been lost, prompting the Second Young Master to order an investigation and threaten him with death if he failed.
• The Second Young Master declared that gathering more World-Breakers would open the gate to another world and help him obtain the Dao Painting before challenging his elder brother.

Jiang Yuechu learned that the Southern Immortal Palace was hunting human cultivators, including people connected to the Xuanming Lineage, and suspected they had crossed over from another world. She killed the informant and headed deeper into Immortal-Staying Valley, while Lin Feiyan chose to follow her.

• Lin Feiyan warned Jiang Yuechu that the Southern Immortal Palace and its Second Young Master were too powerful to provoke.
• Jiang Yuechu questioned the old dog, who revealed that the Second Young Master had ordered a search for human cultivators and that one captive called himself the Chief Seat of the Xuanming Lineage.
• Jiang Yuechu realized the Southern Immortal Palace might be targeting cultivators like her who had crossed over from another world.
• Jiang Yuechu killed the old dog and stored its corpse, despite Lin Feiyan suggesting they leave the valley.
• Jiang Yuechu went deeper into the miasma to investigate, and Lin Feiyan decided to follow her with Gong Shaoqi.

The Grey Wolf Demon and jackal demon discussed the Immortal God Grotto-Abode and the Second Young Master's chance to seize the Dao Painting. A white-robed girl arrived at their guarded cave riding the Azure Water Golden-Crystal Beast, whose purple-gold radiance revealed it was an Immortal-Grade Dao Chess Piece.

• The jackal demon and Grey Wolf Demon discussed the Immortal God Grotto-Abode and agreed they should guard the World-Breakers while the Second Young Master pursued the Dao Painting.
• The Grey Wolf Demon sensed intruders approaching and warned them to leave the Southern Immortal Palace's vital ground.
• A white-robed girl rode into the cave on the Azure Water Golden-Crystal Beast, prompting the demons to accuse it of betraying the Second Young Master.
• The Azure Water Golden-Crystal Beast unleashed an icy current, and the two demons summoned their Demon Palaces and sent sixteen Dao Chess Pieces at the girl.
• The beast's purple-gold radiance suppressed the incoming Dao Chess Pieces, and the demons realized it was an Immortal-Grade Dao Chess Piece.

Jiang Yuechu used her Immortal-Grade Dao Chess Piece to battle the two demons serving the Southern Immortal Palace’s Second Young Master. After Lin Feiyan recognized Jiang Yuechu and saw the fight’s destruction, she prepared herself and rushed toward the battle.

• The Grey Wolf Demon tried to deter Jiang Yuechu by invoking the Southern Immortal Palace’s Second Young Master, but Jiang Yuechu unleashed a Heavenly River and a storm of stars.
• The Grey Wolf Demon and the jackal demon recalled their Dao Chess Pieces into their bodies and charged at the falling stars, causing the Cave Abode to collapse.
• Lin Feiyan and Gong Shaoqi were driven back by the battle’s gale, and Lin Feiyan recognized Jiang Yuechu’s purple-gold light as that of an Immortal-Grade Dao Chess Piece.
• Gong Shaoqi asked whether they should approach, and Lin Feiyan told him to hide while she went ahead.
• Lin Feiyan put on a Bronze Heart-Protecting Mirror, crushed two protective talismans, revealed her Seventh Rank cultivation, and rushed into the dust.

Jiang Yuechu fought two Eighth Rank Great Demons to stop them from protecting the Second Young Master's hidden world-breaking opportunity. Though their attacks wounded her, she used Fire Dragon Heart-Burning to raise her cultivation to the Sixth Rank and faced their renewed assault.

• The Grey Wolf Demon and the jackal demon dismissed Jiang Yuechu's threat and decided to kill her to keep their hidden world secret.
• Jiang Yuechu appeared behind the Grey Wolf Demon and struck it with a freezing punch, while the jackal demon attacked her with its enlarged claw.
• Jiang Yuechu took the jackal demon's full-force blow, bled, and chose not to retreat because the conflict concerned the world of Great Tang.
• Jiang Yuechu activated Fire Dragon Heart-Burning and raised her cultivation from the Third Rank to the Sixth Rank before stopping the technique.
• The jackal demon and the Grey Wolf Demon charged Jiang Yuechu together, intent on killing her.