Chapter Summaries

Gao Xian and Qingqing defeated a Heaven Puppet Sect disciple who had entered the Longevity Sword Grotto through a spatial passage, and Gao Xian discovered the man’s Nine Provinces Token and sect identity. Years later, the sight of the sun and moon sharing the sky helped Gao Xian break through a barrier in his swordsmanship as his nine Heavenly Image Sword Intents merged.

• Yuan Jiuhe attacked Qingqing with his Southern Bright Five-Fire Fan after she killed Red Tiger, trapping her in layers of flame.
• Gao Xian ambushed Yuan Jiuhe, killing him and his puppet substitute with one sword strike, and Qingqing destroyed the remaining fire rings.
• Gao Xian searched the corpses and belongings, identified Yuan Jiuhe as a Heaven Puppet Sect true disciple, and found the Nine Provinces Token that had opened the spatial passage.
• Gao Xian considered the risks of the stolen artifacts and continued preparing to advance his swordsmanship while the Taixuan Divine Image gathered information in Prajna City.
• After several years of studying the Cold Moon Sword, Gao Xian saw the sun and moon in the sky together, and his nine Heavenly Image Sword Intents fused into peerless sword qi.

Gao Xian broke through to the Wuji Heaven Aspect Sword Scripture and chose to focus on steady sword cultivation while secretly seeking a way into Prajna Temple. He arranged for Tie Yuan, a gifted child he took in as a disciple, to enter the temple, where Gao Xian planned to wait for him to grow in rank.

• Gao Xian fused the nine sword intents into Wuji sword intent, advanced his sword manual into the Wuji Heaven Aspect Sword Scripture, and reached the sixth level of Golden Core in his First Grade Sword Core.
• Gao Xian chose to cultivate the sword scripture first rather than pursue the uncertain fusion of his five divine swords, and he continued using precious pearls to guard himself and Qingqing from the Longevity Sword Grotto's five-metal qi.
• Gao Xian's Taixuan Divine Image remained disguised in Prajna City and, after decades of searching for a way into Prajna Temple, decided to cultivate a promising disciple.
• Gao Xian met Tie Yuan and Tie Ying, offered to take them in, and brought them to his home after Tie Yuan accepted.
• Gao Xian accepted Tie Yuan as his disciple, trained him in a Golden Body method, and saw him enter Prajna Temple at seventeen.
• Gao Xian decided to wait until Tie Yuan reached Golden Core before advancing his plan.

Gao Xian cultivated in the Longevity Sword Grotto while his Taixuan Divine Image guided Tie Yuan and Tie Ying in Prajna City. After Tie Yuan became a Nascent Soul cultivator with the Great Might Heavenly Dragon Seal, Gao Xian wondered whether his former disciple would repay him.

• Gao Xian helped Tie Yuan enter Prajna Temple and arranged for Tie Ying to learn alchemy, then watched Tie Yuan complete Foundation Establishment and thank him.
• Twenty years later, Tie Yuan formed a First Grade Golden Core and became a Dharma Master; he visited Gao Xian with Tie Ying, who later complained that Gao Xian had been cold toward them.
• Gao Xian spent three hundred and sixty million Humanity Aura to raise the Thunder and Lightning Scripture to grandmaster perfection, strengthening his lightning arts, speed, perception, and swordsmanship.
• Mingxiang Arhat Venerable bestowed Prajna Temple's Great Might Heavenly Dragon Seal on Tie Yuan, who used its support to attain the Nascent Soul Dao in eighty years.
• Gao Xian heard that Tie Yuan had become a Nascent Soul cultivator and wondered whether he would repay the debt he owed.

Gao Xian completed his infant formation and merged his Yin Spirit with the White Emperor Universe Transformation Sword, attaining Body-Sword Unity. He left the Longevity Sword Grotto celebrating his new power, while Qingqing watched in awe.

• Gao Xian used his Humanity Aura to perfect his four divine lights and advance his Great Five Elements Technique and Wuji Heaven Aspect Sword Scripture.
• Gao Xian began infant formation before Qingqing, gathering the five-metal qi and using Jade Spirit Paste to condense a powerful Yin Spirit.
• Gao Xian refined the White Emperor Universe Transformation Sword’s restrictions with his Yin Spirit over three days, joining his body, spirit, and sword as one.
• Gao Xian awakened the sword’s Sharp Metal Divine Light, and its vast sword qi overwhelmed Qingqing’s defenses before dispersing.
• Gao Xian laughed and declared himself a sword immortal among men.

After achieving Nascent Soul and Body-Sword Unity, Gao Xian tested his new powers and left Prajna City to return to the Wanfeng Sect. He invited Tie Yuan to meet, then asked to borrow fourth-rank Nine-Revolution Dragon Elephant Pills, prompting Tie Yuan to question their relationship.

• Gao Xian awakened Sharp Metal Divine Light, completing the five divine lights that supported his techniques and strengthened the White Emperor Universe Transformation Sword.
• Gao Xian tested his Nascent Soul abilities, then sent the Taiyuan Divine Image to Prajna City and had the Taixuan Divine Image leave for the Wanfeng Sect.
• Gao Xian wrote to Tie Yuan and invited him to visit, believing it was time to see what his investment in the young cultivator would yield.
• Tie Yuan arrived as a Nascent Soul high master and regarded Gao Xian with a mix of respect and suspicion.
• Gao Xian asked Tie Yuan to lend him fourth-rank Nine-Revolution Dragon Elephant Pills and offered two fourth-rank Spirit Artifacts in exchange.
• Tie Yuan questioned Gao Xian's request and said he knew his father had never had a friend like Gao Xian.

Tie Yuan confronted Gao Xian over the demand for Dragon Elephant Pills, only to discover that his teacher was a powerful Nascent Soul sword cultivator who could easily overcome him. Tie Yuan began paying the pills, while Gao Xian turned to plans for revenge against White Sun True Lord and other enemies.

• Tie Yuan weighed the risks of refusing Gao Xian's request and agreed to provide ten fourth-rank Nine-Revolution Dragon Elephant Pills each year until he had delivered three hundred.
• Tie Yuan threatened Gao Xian with his Nascent Soul power, but Gao Xian revealed his own strength and pierced Tie Yuan's defenses with a sword-light attack.
• Gao Xian warned Tie Yuan not to involve Dragon Elephant Palace or Mingxiang, promised to leave after receiving the pills, and gave him three days to decide.
• Tie Yuan returned the next day with ten pills, then left without speaking.
• Gao Xian returned his true body to Prajna City and sent the Taixuan Divine Image toward Wanfeng Sect to kill White Sun True Lord.
• Gao Xian planned to destroy Yan Ming and, after attaining Spirit Transformation, use Yuan Wuxian to consecrate his sword.

Gao Xian appeared at Purple Leaf Peak and confronted White Sun True Lord, who had helped cause the deaths of Gao Xian’s elders and friends. Gao Xian revealed his Sword Lord Body-Sword Unity and killed White Sun True Lord, sending a message to Qiushui through his dying yin spirit.

• White Sun True Lord sensed an ominous feeling at Purple Leaf Peak before Gao Xian appeared behind him.
• Gao Xian told White Sun True Lord he had come to kill him in revenge and offered to spare him if he repented at his friends’ graves.
• White Sun True Lord attacked Gao Xian with the Falling Soul Bell and Geng Metal Profound Origin Sword, but neither stopped him.
• Gao Xian used Body-Sword Unity to pierce White Sun True Lord and split his yin spirit.
• Gao Xian asked White Sun True Lord’s yin spirit to tell Qiushui that he missed her before the spirit dispersed.

After White Sun True Lord’s murder, Wanfeng Sect investigated the unexplained death while Gao Xian’s hidden role went unsuspected. Over twenty-three years, Gao Xian accumulated Dragon Elephant Pills and Humanity Aura, advanced his body-refinement art to Grandmaster, and prepared to pursue Nascent Soul formation.

• Sword Lord Mingyang and Yue Shenxiu found no traces at Purple Leaf Peak and concluded that a Nascent Soul sword cultivator had killed White Sun True Lord.
• Yue Wanfeng ordered Mingyang and Shenxiu to continue investigating and tasked Golden Sun True Lord with examining Gao Xian’s connections, though he dismissed Gao Xian as the killer.
• Taiyuan Divine Image and Taixuan Divine Image switched places while Gao Xian’s true body stayed near Prajna Temple and collected Nine-Revolution Dragon Elephant Pills from Tie Yuan.
• After more than twenty years, Gao Xian returned to the Longevity Sword Grotto and spent four hundred million Humanity Aura to raise the Dragon Elephant Bright King Vajra Pestle to Grandmaster.
• Gao Xian discovered that his lifespan had increased to two thousand five hundred years and judged that his body refinement now matched the middle-to-late Nascent Soul stage, leaving him ready to prepare for forming a Nascent Soul.

Tie Yuan found Gao Taixuan’s farewell letter and accepted the end of their arrangement, while Gao Xian emerged from the Longevity Sword Grotto after 180 years of cultivation. Summoned by Yue Wanfeng over Baiyang’s death, Gao Xian asked for treasures to aid his Nascent Soul formation and volunteered to kill Yan Ming, prompting Yue Wanfeng to offer his Five Elements Lotus Crown as an additional reward.

• Tie Yuan visited Gao Taixuan’s empty courtyard, read his letter relinquishing the final ten Dragon Elephant Pills, and burned it before accepting their separation.
• Gao Xian completed his stay in the Longevity Sword Grotto, advanced his cultivation, and sent Qingqing into the Spirit-Nurturing Ring before leaving through the formation’s passage.
• Yue Shenxiu and Qiniang welcomed Gao Xian outside the grotto, while Sword Lord Mingyang took him to meet Yue Wanfeng about Baiyang’s death.
• Gao Xian asked Yue Wanfeng for Earth-Origin Spirit Fluid and Jade Spirit Paste to prepare for forming a Nascent Soul.
• Yue Wanfeng offered the two treasures in exchange for a Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivator’s death, and Gao Xian volunteered to kill Yan Ming.
• Yue Wanfeng promised Gao Xian his privately kept Five Elements Lotus Crown as well if he brought back Yan Ming’s head.

Gao Xian returned to Wanfeng Sect, collected his accumulated salary, and prepared to investigate Yan Ming in Blood God Sect territory. After arranging cultivation support for Qiniang and plans for Yue Shenxiu, he secretly traveled to Blood Red City to wait for Yan Ming.

• Gao Xian collected two hundred years of accumulated pay from Shaking Light Hall, exchanging his supplies for four Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Gao Xian told Yue Shenxiu and Qiniang that he intended to kill Yan Ming, then reassured them he would first assess the situation and not act rashly.
• Gao Xian and Yue Shenxiu reunited, and he later refused to bring her on his dangerous mission, asking her instead to help Qiniang and Qingqing obtain breakthrough resources.
• Gao Xian gave Qiniang twenty Nine-Revolution Dragon Elephant Pills and improved his concealment art with accumulated Humanity Aura.
• Gao Xian secretly traveled to Blood Red City, where his Taixuan Divine Image had already investigated the Blood God Sect for over two years, and prepared to wait for Yan Ming.

Gao Xian tracked Yan Ming to Blood Red City and infiltrated his guarded residence, where he confronted the Blood God Sect’s sect master. Their swords clashed, and Gao Xian’s sword light formed a bright moon that swept away Yan Ming’s Blood River Sword qi.

• Gao Xian waited in Blood Red City, using Old Lu’s connection to the Yan household to learn where Yan Ming might stay.
• Gao Xian entered the inner city and pierced the formations around the courtyard prepared for Yan Ming.
• Gao Xian discovered Yan Ming drinking with Liu Xiangyun and entered the courtyard without triggering its formations.
• Yan Ming challenged Gao Xian’s strength, secretly activated the formation, and drew the Blood River Sword.
• Gao Xian summoned a four-foot sword and met Yan Ming’s bloodlight with a bright, moonlike sword strike.

Gao Xian fought Yan Ming inside the Blood God Palace, overcoming the Blood Nightmare Art and the Eight Evils Death Curse before piercing Yan Ming with his sword. The palace shattered with Yan Ming’s wound, leaving the battle’s outcome at the moment of his defeat.

• Gao Xian confronted Yan Ming with the White Emperor Universe Transformation Sword, and their sword attacks clashed as the Blood God Child blocked Gao Xian’s advance.
• Yan Ming trapped Gao Xian in the Blood Nightmare Art, but Gao Xian used the Sun Aspect Sword to burn away the nightmares.
• Yan Ming summoned the Blood God Palace and restricted the spiritual qi within it, then unleashed the Eight Evils Death Curse against Gao Xian.
• Sister Lan absorbed the curse’s force, allowing Gao Xian to transform into Keen Sword Light and pierce through Yan Ming’s defenses.
• Gao Xian’s sword scar opened across Yan Ming’s chest, and the Blood God Palace shattered with it.

Gao Xian killed Yan Ming after the Blood God Sect master used Liu Xiangyun as a substitute and unleashed the Blood God Banner to harvest essence blood from Blood Red City’s residents. After collecting Yan Ming’s Divine Artifacts, Gao Xian offered wine to Yun Qiushui and slew the remaining Golden Core demonic cultivators.

• Gao Xian discovered that Yan Ming had survived his first killing blow by using Liu Xiangyun as a substitute and rebuilding his form with her essence blood.
• Yan Ming trapped Gao Xian inside the Blood God Banner, then swept its bloodlight across the City Lord’s Manor and northern district, killing thousands to gather essence blood.
• Gao Xian emerged from the Blood God Banner and killed Yan Ming with Northern Dipper Director of Fate, then collected the Blood River Sword and Blood God Banner.
• Gao Xian poured Peach Blossom Brew into the air for Yun Qiushui and recited a poem beneath the autumn night sky.
• Gao Xian’s sword qi burst the several Golden Core demonic cultivators into clouds of blood mist.

Gao Xian infiltrated the Blood God Sect’s Blood God Hall, killed its guardians and Golden Core cultivators, and plundered its secret vault. After he left, news of Yan Ming’s death and the Blood God Sect’s destruction spread through Wanfeng Prefecture and the Eastern Wasteland.

• Gao Xian hid inside the Blood God Hall and killed Yan Donglin with a surprise sword strike when he returned.
• Gao Xian broke into the sect’s secret vault and took all the spiritual objects, pills, and artifacts inside, triggering an alarm.
• The Purple Blood Hall Master and sixteen other Golden Core cultivators gathered outside the hall, and Gao Xian emerged and killed all seventeen with Nine Provinces Bright Moon.
• Gao Xian killed the Golden Core cultivators who tried to flee, then left the Blood God Sect on the Mystic Yellow Divine Light.
• News of Yan Ming’s death in Blood Red City and the deaths of the Blood God Sect’s Golden Cores spread across Wanfeng Prefecture and the Eastern Wasteland.

Xiao Hongye learned that Gao Xian had destroyed the Blood God Sect, easing the immediate pressure on Heaven-Reaching Sword Sect, and heard that he had arrived to see her. After two centuries apart, she reunited with Gao Xian at the sect’s gate, where their affection became obvious to Chen Yuying and the watching cultivators.

• Xiao Hongye reflected on Heaven-Reaching Sword Sect’s threatened relocation and her longing for Gao Xian while the Eastern Wasteland’s forces withdrew for winter.
• Chen Yuying told Xiao Hongye that Gao Xian had killed Yan Ming and wiped out the Blood God Sect, and Xiao Hongye considered how the victory might delay the sect’s relocation.
• Han Chengzhen informed Xiao Hongye that Gao Xian had arrived at Heaven-Reaching Peak to see her.
• Xiao Hongye and Chen Yuying went to the sect gate, where Xiao Hongye reunited with Gao Xian after two hundred years.
• Gao Xian took Xiao Hongye’s hand, and Chen Yuying realized they were lovers as the other cultivators tactfully looked away.

Wind Thunder Sword Lord reconsidered his plans for the sect after learning that Gao Xian had killed Yan Ming, and he welcomed Gao Xian as a powerful ally. At a banquet, he gave Xiao Hongye the Langya Jade Crystal and gifted Gao Xian treasures useful for forming a Nascent Soul, leaving Gao Xian willing to help him in the future.

• Wind Thunder Sword Lord weighed whether to give Xiao Hongye the Langya Jade Crystal, then learned Gao Xian had arrived after killing Yan Ming.
• Wind Thunder Sword Lord realized Gao Xian was too formidable to oppose and suspected he had also killed Gui Wuqi.
• Wind Thunder Sword Lord decided to invite Gao Xian personally and welcomed him and Xiao Hongye at Green Leaf Sword Palace.
• Wind Thunder Sword Lord hosted a banquet for Gao Xian, praising Xiao Hongye and presenting her with the Langya Jade Crystal.
• Wind Thunder Sword Lord gave Gao Xian Earth-Origin Spirit Fluid and Jade Spirit Paste, and Gao Xian accepted while offering future assistance.

After visiting Xiao Hongye, Gao Xian returned to Azure Cloud Cottage and received Yue Wanfeng’s promised Nascent Soul resources and the fourth-rank Five Elements Lotus Crown. He refined the artifact and, with his reputation soaring after killing Yan Ming, prepared to visit Myriad Spirit Sect to seek support for Qingqing’s Nascent Soul formation.

• Gao Xian spent seven days with Xiao Hongye at Green Leaf Sword Palace before leaving the Heaven-Reaching Sword Sect.
• Gao Xian returned to Azure Cloud Cottage with treasure from Yan Ming’s treasury and counted the Nascent Soul-forming resources he still needed.
• Gao Xian visited Yue Wanfeng, who gave him the Five Elements Lotus Crown, Earth-Origin Spirit Fluid, and Jade Spirit Paste, and warned him to beware retaliation from Origin Demon Sect.
• Gao Xian began refining the Five Elements Lotus Crown while visitors praised him and his fame spread across Wanfeng Prefecture.
• By the third month of the following year, Gao Xian had refined the crown enough to use it and decided to visit Yan Feiyin and True Lord Iron Crane at Myriad Spirit Sect for Qingqing’s sake.

After reuniting with Yan Feiyin at Golden Furnace Mountain, Gao Xian sought the spiritual materials he needed to form a Nascent Soul. True Lord Iron Crane offered them in exchange for Gao Xian’s help with a dangerous matter that could benefit both Yan Feiyin and Qingqing.

• Gao Xian surprised Yan Feiyin at Golden Furnace Mountain, and the two reunited after more than two hundred years apart.
• Gao Xian asked Yan Feiyin whether Myriad Spirit Sect had Earth-Origin Spirit Fluid and Jade Spirit Paste, and she said the sect should have two portions.
• Yan Feiyin asked Gao Xian to secure materials for her as well, but he warned that intervening in the sect’s affairs could anger True Lord Iron Crane.
• Gao Xian met True Lord Iron Crane, who praised him for killing Yan Ming and listened as Gao Xian asked to obtain the spiritual materials.
• True Lord Iron Crane offered to give Gao Xian the materials if he would help with a dangerous matter that could benefit Yan Feiyin and Qingqing.

Gao Xian accepted True Lord Iron Crane’s request to hunt the Six-Tailed Heavenly Fox in Mysterious Spirit Mountain, then traveled into the dangerous realm. He found the fox, discovered it was a fifth-rank powerhouse, and was swallowed by its attack.

• Gao Xian learned from Yan Feiyin that the Six-Tailed Heavenly Fox might be a fifth-rank beast and that Mysterious Spirit Mountain was exceptionally dangerous, but he decided to go anyway.
• True Lord Iron Crane gave Gao Xian Jade Spirit Paste, Earth-Origin Spirit Fluid, and detailed records about Mysterious Spirit Mountain before sending him through the teleportation formation.
• Yan Feiyin and Qingqing waited anxiously as Gao Xian arrived in Mysterious Spirit Mountain and set out toward the Phantom Moon Tree.
• Gao Xian located the Six-Tailed Heavenly Fox in its tree hollow and saw that its silver Primordial Spirit had emerged.
• The Six-Tailed Heavenly Fox attacked Gao Xian with a blast of silver light, which swallowed him whole.

Gao Xian fought the six-tailed Heavenly Fox to test the power of a fifth-tier demon beast, but its strength overwhelmed his avatar and forced him to retreat. He escaped through the ancient teleportation array and vowed to return after reaching Nascent Soul.

• Gao Xian analyzed the six-tailed Heavenly Fox's attacks and used the Five Elements Lotus Crown and Sister Lan to withstand its divine consciousness intimidation.
• Gao Xian evaded the Heavenly Fox's first Gang Qi projectile, then used Star Shifting to blunt a second projectile before fleeing its explosion.
• The six-tailed Heavenly Fox crossed the void and struck Gao Xian's Taiji Divine Image, crushing it and destroying the mountain beneath them.
• Gao Xian activated the Ten Thousand Spirits Token at the ancient teleportation array and escaped while the Heavenly Fox gave up the pursuit.
• Gao Xian vowed to return and defeat the six-tailed Heavenly Fox after he reached Nascent Soul.