Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiaochuan reached the Divine Body Third Level and gained the Myriad Swords Turn to Rain divine power. With Princess Qianqian’s deadline approaching, he and Murong Wushuang set out to borrow twenty Black Fire Wood Pearls, stopping at the edge of the Five Colors Miasma Forest.

• Ning Xiaochuan completed the Heavenly Thunder Bell and later broke through to the Divine Body Third Level, awakening Myriad Swords Turn to Rain.
• Murong Wushuang consumed the Explosive Ape and Golden War Lion beast cores and advanced to the Divine Body Second Level.
• Murong Wushuang reported that none of the Great Golden Roc King Residence’s young martial artists had publicly moved to rescue Princess Qianqian, and Ning Xiaochuan decided to act rather than let her die.
• Ning Xiaochuan said he would borrow twenty Black Fire Wood Pearls from whoever possessed them, and Murong Wushuang followed him toward the mountain’s depths.
• At dusk, Ning Xiaochuan stopped at the edge of the Five Colors Miasma Forest, leaving Murong Wushuang wondering whom he intended to approach.

Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Wushuang fought off warriors from the Qilin King Residence, then secured twenty Black Fire Wood Pearls from Yu TianDi to reach Dragonfall Valley before nightfall. They arrived at the valley, where onlookers—including Princess Lanfei—watched Ning Xiaochuan prepare to enter and rescue Yu Qianqian.

• Murong Wushuang defeated more than a dozen warriors who tried to rob him and Ning Xiaochuan of their Black Fire Wood Pearls.
• Ning Xiaochuan destroyed Yu TianDi’s six-legged lion with one palm strike and persuaded Yu TianDi to lend him twenty Black Fire Wood Pearls, promising to return thirty by sunrise.
• Yu TianDi revealed that he hoped Dark Emperor City and the Sword Pavilion Marquis’s Mansion would weaken each other, leaving the Qilin King Residence to claim the spoils.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Wushuang raced to Dragonfall Valley, where poisonous mist covered the entrance and gathered warriors awaited the confrontation over Yu Qianqian.
• Princess Lanfei watched from her chariot and dismissed Ning Xiaochuan as an unrestrained romantic fool destined to die young.

Ning Xiaochuan entered Dragonfall Valley with Murong Wushuang to rescue Yu Qianqian, only to discover that she could defend herself. After Yu Qianqian killed two guards, Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Wushuang began fighting the Dark Emperor City martial artists.

• Ning Xiaochuan offered twenty Black Fire Wood Pearls to rescue Yu Qianqian, but refused to hand them over before seeing her and ensuring their safe escape.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Wushuang entered Dragonfall Valley with the black-robed leader and found Yu Qianqian imprisoned in a cliffside cave.
• Yu Qianqian rejected Ning Xiaochuan's offer to save her, then struck down the two Divine Body Second Level guards when the leader ordered them to kill her.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Wushuang attacked the Dark Emperor City martial artists, killing several as the black-robed leader ordered the valley entrance guarded and called for reinforcements.
• Ning Xiaochuan charged at the black-robed leader with a lightning attack.

Ning Xiaochuan fought off Dark Emperor City's martial artists in Dragonfall Valley while Murong Wushuang and Yu Qianqian retreated into a narrow gorge. He held the gorge entrance against the pursuing forces as Dark Emperor City's Second Leader approached, while Princess Lanfei waited for the two sides to weaken each other.

• Ning Xiaochuan and the black-robed leader fought at the Divine Body Third Level, and Ning Xiaochuan shattered her Icefire Tower and wounded her with a lightning-powered strike.
• Ning Xiaochuan killed two black-robed martial artists who attacked him from behind, while Murong Wushuang and Yu Qianqian returned badly wounded after failing to break through the valley entrance.
• Ning Xiaochuan and his companions retreated deeper into Dragonfall Valley, and Ning Xiaochuan used Myriad Swords Turn to Rain to kill four pursuers and injure more than ten.
• Dark Emperor City's tiger-furred Second Leader appeared, and Ning Xiaochuan retreated to the narrow gorge after seeing Murong Wushuang and Yu Qianqian reach it.
• Ning Xiaochuan defended the gorge entrance alone as Yu TianDi and Princess Lanfei watched; Princess Lanfei ordered her people to wait until the Second Leader and Ning Xiaochuan had fought.

Ning Xiaochuan killed the Second Leader of Dark Emperor City, then used his remaining strength to intimidate the enemy while waiting for Ning Xiner and reinforcements. The standoff was interrupted by a terrifying dragon roar from the depths of Dragonfall Valley.

• Ning Xiaochuan defeated the Second Leader’s Golden Orb Soul Lock and True Tiger Golden Body with World Extinction Sword Qi, killing him in the gorge.
• Ning Xiaochuan threw the Second Leader’s corpse before the martial artists of Dark Emperor City and challenged them, leaving the onlookers shocked and wary.
• Ning Xiner rushed toward Dragonfall Valley with experts from the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, determined to save her brother.
• The Third Leader suspected Ning Xiaochuan was gravely wounded, but Ning Xiaochuan killed a black-robed martial artist who attacked him and kept the others at bay.
• A massive dragon roar echoed from the depths of Dragonfall Valley, alarming everyone gathered there.

Ning Xiaochuan, Yu Qianqian, and Murong Wushuang fled into a deep gorge as Dark Emperor City warriors pursued them, then followed dragon roars into a frightening underground cave. The chapter ended with Yu Qianqian fainting after they discovered a blood-soaked figure beside a grave and signs that something had crawled out of it.

• Ning Xiaochuan left the Dark Emperor City warriors and hurried into the gorge to find Yu Qianqian and Murong Wushuang, while the Third Leader led the remaining warriors deeper into the gorge as enemies arrived outside.
• Yu Qianqian gave Ning Xiaochuan medicine for his injuries, and he learned that Murong Wushuang had gone to investigate the dragon roars.
• Murong Wushuang returned from a Millennial Cave and described its great depth, darkness, and unsettling atmosphere.
• As Dark Emperor City warriors closed in, Ning Xiaochuan led Yu Qianqian and Murong Wushuang into the cave, where they found a grave after walking ten li.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qianqian discovered a motionless, blood-soaked person behind the tombstone and saw a hole in the grave mound; Yu Qianqian fainted in terror.

Ning Xiaochuan, Murong Wushuang, and Yu Qianqian escaped an underground cave and reached a blood-filled pool beneath Blood Mountain, where a ruined demon palace stood above them. After suspecting their pursuer was a Mountain Guardian Corpse Slave, they paused to recover, and Ning Xiaochuan’s Demon Sword reacted violently to the Martial Venerable’s blood.

• Ning Xiaochuan cut off the corpse’s clenched hand, carried the unconscious Yu Qianqian, and fled with Murong Wushuang through the underground cave.
• A terrifying Yin Qi pursued them, so Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Wushuang leaped from the cave into a blood-red pool beneath a waterfall.
• Ning Xiaochuan recognized the demon palace atop Blood Mountain from a vision caused by the Black Fire Wood Pearl and explained the legend of the Mountain Guardian Corpse Slave.
• Ning Xiaochuan decided to heal before climbing Blood Mountain, while Yu Qianqian woke and gave him and Murong Wushuang healing pills.
• Ning Xiaochuan identified the severed hand as belonging to a Martial Venerable, and a drop of its blood made the pool boil as his Demon Sword stirred hungrily.

Ning Xiaochuan and his companions climbed Blood Mountain while other young martial artists entered the Fire Demon Mountain Range behind them. After finding evidence of a powerful rival ahead, Ning Xiaochuan absorbed one drop of Martial Venerable Blood and discovered a mysterious bone pearl in the corpse hand.

• Ning Xiaochuan suppressed the Demon Sword and recovered from his injuries for two days before climbing Blood Mountain with Yu Qianqian and Murong Wushuang.
• The Third Leader of Dark Emperor City escaped the underground cave, followed Ning Xiaochuan's trail toward the Demon Palace, and other young experts soon began arriving at Blood Mountain.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qianqian discussed their broken marriage alliance and his decision to save her in Dragonfall Valley as they climbed.
• Murong Wushuang found freshly severed giant trees, and Ning Xiaochuan realized a powerful young martial artist had reached Blood Mountain before them.
• After the three sheltered in a mountainside cave for the night, Ning Xiaochuan fed one drop of Martial Venerable Blood to the Demon Sword and collected the remaining 135 drops.
• Ning Xiaochuan pried open the corpse hand and found a bone pearl that resisted his attempts to damage or identify it.

Princess Lanfei came to kill Ning Xiaochuan and force him to become her slave, but she underestimated how fully he had recovered. Ning Xiaochuan defeated and disarmed her, then threatened to kill her as she tried to talk her way out of it.

• Ning Xiaochuan put away the bone bead and resumed cultivating after absorbing Martial Venerable Blood.
• Princess Lanfei arrived with six warriors, declared she would kill Ning Xiaochuan, and offered him the choice of death or submission through a Heart Palace Jade Gu Worm.
• Princess Lanfei attacked with her Five Elements Divine Body while Yu Qianqian and Murong Wushuang fought her six warriors.
• Ning Xiaochuan pursued Princess Lanfei into the forest, broke through her leaf attack, and struck her down with a Lightning Divine Beast.
• Ning Xiaochuan dislocated Princess Lanfei’s arms and raised his sword to kill her, but she tried to persuade him that sparing her would be worthwhile.

Ning Xiaochuan killed Princess Lanfei after resisting her seduction, but the Third Leader of Dark Emperor City witnessed the killing and escaped. When he returned, Princess Lanfei had revived as a Half Corpse Slave, and an eerie old crone claimed she could truly bring the newly dead back to life.

• Ning Xiaochuan beheaded Princess Lanfei, searched her body, and took twenty-seven Black Fire Wood Pearls.
• The Third Leader of Dark Emperor City appeared, then escaped Ning Xiaochuan by flying away with her Ice-Fire Twin Flying Wings after witnessing the killing.
• Ning Xiaochuan returned to find Princess Lanfei's corpse missing, then saw her restored body standing beneath a tree.
• An old crone emerged and explained that Princess Lanfei was a Half Corpse Slave because she had revived her shortly after death.
• The old crone insisted her power could truly bring the newly dead back to life, and Ning Xiaochuan questioned her claim.

Ning Xiaochuan watched Princess Lanfei revive with her memories missing, then was forced by the strange old crone to retrieve an Ancient Pill Cauldron from the Mountain Top Demon Palace. As Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Lanfei climbed Blood Mountain, they encountered the dangerous swordsman Ming Yang, who was practicing near the summit.

• The old crone vanished after insisting she had truly resurrected Princess Lanfei, who awoke and attacked Ning Xiaochuan before questioning who he was.
• Yu Qianqian and Murong Wushuang joined Ning Xiaochuan, and Yu Qianqian suggested the old crone had restored Princess Lanfei but left her with lost memories.
• The old crone reappeared, recognized Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Wushuang as Huo Shidao's disciples, and ordered Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Lanfei to retrieve an Ancient Pill Cauldron from the Mountain Top Demon Palace within five days.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Lanfei climbed Blood Mountain and saw the Demon Palace, then met the heavy-sword-wielding Ming Yang on the perilous path.
• Ming Yang practiced swordsmanship near a cliff, and Princess Lanfei asked Ning Xiaochuan what they should do if Ming Yang reached the Demon Palace and took the cauldron first.

Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Lanfei reached the Demon Palace, where Ning Xiaochuan seized an ancient pill cauldron and was pursued by powerful corpse slaves and nether soldiers. With the pursuers closing in, he fled through a small doorway in a blood-marked black wall.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Lanfei cultivated with Martial Venerable Essence Blood, and Ning Xiaochuan’s Heaven and Earth Profound Qi cultivation accelerated after the bone pearl absorbed some profound qi.
• Ming Yang tested Ning Xiaochuan with a distant sword strike, then continued up the mountain with Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Lanfei the next day.
• The three reached the Demon Palace and saw nether soldiers, corpse slaves, and a chained dragon within its ruined gates.
• When Ming Yang touched a black brick, a nether soldier attacked him, allowing Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Lanfei to slip inside the palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan put the ancient pill cauldron into his Universe Pouch, but its guarding corpse slaves and pursuing nether soldiers forced him to flee.
• Ning Xiaochuan ran into a small doorway opened in a blood-marked black wall as the palace’s creatures pursued him.

Ning Xiaochuan escaped the demon palace with Princess Lanfei after the Demon Sword absorbed the blood energy of a gigantic heart and helped him reach the peak of the Divine Body Third Level. Outside, Ning Mu told him that Ning Xiner had been killed and the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion had been attacked, leaving Ning Xiaochuan facing the enemies responsible.

• Ning Xiaochuan followed a bloody claw into a dark space, where a gigantic heart devoured the pills from the Ancient Pill Cauldron and attacked him with streams of blood energy.
• The Demon Sword absorbed the heart's blood energy, then transferred its power to Ning Xiaochuan; the Mystic Beast Egg absorbed the excess and developed another crack.
• After three days, Ning Xiaochuan awakened with a fourth divine source and left the demon palace with Princess Lanfei carrying the cauldron.
• Several hundred young masters outside the palace eyed the cauldron, but Ning Xiaochuan warned them off and strode through the crowd.
• Ning Mu told Ning Xiaochuan that Ning Xiner had been struck into a waterfall by leaders from Cloud Marquis's Mansion and two sects, and that many members of the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion had been killed.
• Yao Jindao appeared and dismissed Ning Mu as a remnant, while Ning Mu recognized him with terror.

Ning Xiaochuan confronted Yao Jindao and the allied forces responsible for attacking Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, then killed Tian Ling when he demanded Princess Lanfei's release. He began fighting Yao Jindao, who revealed his formidable strength and Black Tortoise Battle Qi, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Yao Jindao admitted that he had struck Ning Xiner into an abyss, and Ning Xiaochuan vowed to kill him in return.
• Tian Ling demanded that Ning Xiaochuan release Princess Lanfei, but she confirmed she had chosen to follow Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan defeated Tian Ling, killed him with his own sword, and pinned his corpse to a demon palace pillar.
• Yao Jindao challenged Ning Xiaochuan and used his Dragon Elephant Arm in their fight.
• Ning Xiaochuan wounded Yao Jindao with a Lightning Divine Beast attack, then unleashed five more divine powers against him.
• Yao Jindao defended himself with Black Tortoise Battle Qi, which Qi Chan'er said was nearly impossible to break.

Ning Xiaochuan killed Yao Jindao by breaking through his Black Tortoise Battle Qi, then confronted Zhuo Yichan and Hua Ruyue over Xin’er’s death. He drove Hua Ruyue back and shattered her sound-wave attack, while the battle against his enemies continued.

• Yao Jindao used Black Tortoise Battle Qi to withstand Ning Xiaochuan’s attacks and taunted him about taking his life in three moves.
• Ning Xiaochuan used World Extinction Sword Wave to pierce Yao Jindao’s defense, struck him with a lightning palm, and killed him with a final sword wave that sent him off the cliff.
• Ning Xiaochuan accused Zhuo Yichan and Hua Ruyue of killing Xin’er and vowed to make everyone involved pay.
• Hua Ruyue attacked Ning Xiaochuan, but he repelled her with Heavenly Thunder Bell and shattered her sound-wave attack, snapping her zither strings and drawing blood from her fingers.
• Zhuo Yichan attacked with a metal trident, and Ning Xiaochuan fought him with Sword Qi Phantoms as Hua Ruyue joined the battle with sound-wave attacks.

Ning Xiaochuan avenged Ning Xiner by killing Hua Ruyue and throwing Zhuo Yichan into the abyss, then drove off their allies and used Yu TianDi to deter the gathered martial artists. As Yu TianDi's followers collected the Black Fire Wood Pearls, Yu TianDi asked Ning Xiaochuan about his relationship with Princess Lanfei.

• Ning Xiaochuan fought Zhuo Yichan and Hua Ruyue, defeated them, and killed Hua Ruyue after she justified killing Ning Xiner.
• Ning Xiaochuan killed five Heavenly Sound Sect disciples who tried to rescue Hua Ruyue, then threw Zhuo Yichan over the cliff.
• Ning Xiaochuan repelled seven young martial artists with a thunderous roar, took their Black Fire Wood Pearls, and threw them into the Demon Palace, where corpse slaves and Nether Soldiers killed them.
• Ning Xiaochuan offered Yu TianDi the Black Fire Wood Pearls from the dead, prompting Yu TianDi to send Yu Cheng and Yu Xue to collect them.
• Yu TianDi asked Ning Xiaochuan what his relationship with Princess Lanfei was, as the gathered martial artists watched.

Ming Yang revealed his Supreme Sword Dao and defeated Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Lanfei, sending them over the edge of Blood Mountain. As Ning Xiaochuan fell, the sword qi triggered his fourth breakthrough, and he awakened Rage Wind Wings to slow his descent.

• Ming Yang demanded the Ancient Pill Cauldron, then killed two of Princess Lanfei’s guardians with his sword without moving.
• Yu TianDi recognized Ming Yang’s Supreme Sword Dao and identified his six sword shadows as evidence of Divine Body Sixth Level cultivation.
• Ning Xiaochuan hurled the Ancient Pill Cauldron into the abyss and tried to escape, but Ming Yang intercepted him and attacked with Supreme World One Sword.
• Ming Yang’s sword qi killed four more guardians and blasted Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Lanfei off Blood Mountain, though Ning Xiaochuan wounded Ming Yang with his World Extinction Sword Wave.
• As Ning Xiaochuan fell, Ming Yang’s sword qi shattered his Fourth Divine Source and advanced him to Divine Body Fourth Level.
• Ning Xiaochuan summoned Rage Wind Wings and used them to slow his fall and begin gliding through the air.

Ning Xiaochuan survived his fall from Blood Mountain after Yu Qianqian begged an old woman to save him, while the woman began using the Ancient Pill Cauldron to remove Corpse Qi from Princess Lanfei. After searching unsuccessfully for Ning Xiner, Ning Xiaochuan followed the Little Red Dragon and found it with her, where it seemed to confirm that it had found his remains.

• Princess Lanfei fell onto Ning Xiaochuan, and Yu Qianqian knelt to persuade the ugly old woman to save them both.
• Ning Xiaochuan awoke in the cave, learned Yu Qianqian had given him a healing pill, and thanked her for saving his life.
• The ugly old woman used the Ancient Pill Cauldron to refine away Princess Lanfei's Corpse Qi in an effort to restore her to life.
• Ning Xiaochuan searched Blood Mountain for Ning Xiner's body but found only other female corpses.
• The Little Red Dragon led Ning Xiaochuan to Ning Xiner, who asked whether it had found her brother's remains, and the dragon nodded.

Ning Xiaochuan reunited with Ning Xiner as a terrifying omen spread from the demon palace, and the Ugly Old Woman warned that something inside was about to escape. After the assessment ended, Ning Xiaochuan and his companions left the Fire Demon Mountain Range and hurried toward the Imperial City, while Princess Lanfei blamed him for what she believed he had done to her.

• Ning Xiaochuan found Ning Xiner alive and learned she had survived her fall by landing on the Red Little Dragon.
• The sky over the Fire Demon Mountain Range turned blood-red, and the Ugly Old Woman said the enormous heart was close to breaking free from the demon palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan, Ning Xiner, Murong Wushuang, Yu Qianqian, and Princess Lanfei traveled through the Five Colors Miasma Forest after the assessment period ended.
• Ning Xiaochuan gave Black Fire Wood Pearls to Yu Qianqian, Murong Wushuang, and Princess Lanfei, who threatened to make him regret what happened that night.
• Ning Xiaochuan and the others left for the Imperial City, followed by the Red Little Dragon.

The Heavenly Emperor Academy announced the examination’s results, and the Sword Pavilion Marquis’s Mansion faced ridicule over its losses. Just as the Jade Ripple Great Emperor declared the examination over, Murong Wushuang and then Ning Xiaochuan, Yu Qianqian, and Ning Xiner arrived, insisting that more participants had returned.

• The Jade Ripple Great Emperor announced that 1,685 martial artists had passed and declared the examination officially concluded.
• The Spirit Creek Sect Master mocked the Sword Pavilion Marquis, who answered that Ning Xiaochuan had killed the Spirit Creek Sect’s leading young expert.
• Murong Wushuang arrived outside the Heavenly Gate and protested that the examination was not over, but a Vice Dean noted that the official cutoff had passed.
• Ning Xiaochuan, Yu Qianqian, and Ning Xiner reached the Heavenly Gate in three carriages and repeated that more participants had returned.