Chapter Summaries

Su Han and Zhao Jinglei fought an intense sword duel, with Su Han breaking Zhao Jinglei’s Thunder Domain Heavenly Prison despite their injuries. After they briefly caught their breath, Zhao Jinglei began summoning heavenly lightning into his sword.

• Zhao Jinglei used his lightning swordplay to pressure Su Han, whose Star River Inverts gradually struggled against the stronger Lightning Sword Intent.
• Su Han shifted to the attack with Moonfall Starfall, but Zhao Jinglei trapped them both inside Thunder Domain Heavenly Prison.
• Su Han poured his power into the Starfire Sword and blasted open the thunder domain, leaving both fighters injured and forcing the arena’s elders to reinforce its barrier.
• Zhao Jinglei praised Su Han for breaking his domain, and observers from both sects marveled at their clash.
• Zhao Jinglei resumed the fight with Heavenly Thunder Summoning, drawing a massive bolt of violet lightning down onto the Jing Lei Sword.

Su Han defeated Zhao Jinglei with the third form of the Star Moon Sword Formula, Reincarnation and Rebirth, but the technique severely weakened him and stirred his suppressed Demonic Seed. Zhao Jinglei conceded, leaving the crowd stunned by Su Han’s victory and mysterious sword intent.

• Zhao Jinglei launched Thunder God Descends at Su Han, while Su Han gathered his focus and unveiled the third form of the Star Moon Sword Formula, Reincarnation and Rebirth.
• Su Han’s sword intent aged and dispersed Zhao Jinglei’s thunder power, then struck his Jing Lei Sword and sent him flying.
• Su Han suppressed his stirring Demonic Seed but suffered worsening injuries and rapidly weakening strength.
• The elders recognized that Su Han’s sword intent contained a trace of reincarnation, and the Xuantian Sect presiding elder praised the Qingyun Sect for producing a true dragon.
• Zhao Jinglei acknowledged Su Han’s strike and conceded, prompting a stunned crowd to erupt in uproar.

Su Han defeated Zhao Jinglei but suffered serious injuries and a worsening Demonic Seed. As he healed under Elder Lin’s protection, his Reincarnation sword intent drew the attention of powerful factions, and a hidden group plotted to abduct him.

• Su Han defeated Zhao Jinglei, who gave him a Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering Pill and vowed to challenge him again after recovering.
• Elder Lin and the Qingyun Sect disciples escorted Su Han back to his residence, where he began healing from his injuries and suppressing the Demonic Seed.
• Elder Lin questioned Su Han about his Reincarnation sword technique, warned him that major powers would target him, and gave him a Clearheart Demon-Calming Pill.
• Su Han circulated the Primordial Star Art to heal while news of his victory and sword intent spread through Tianyuan City and beyond.
• A hidden group discussed Su Han’s Reincarnation sword intent and ordered their followers to watch him and find a chance to bring him under their control.

Su Han entered the round of sixteen still recovering from his injuries and drew You Wuying of Youming Hall, whose attacks threatened his already injured Divine Soul and restless Demonic Seed. As You Wuying repeatedly struck from the shadows, Su Han baited him into revealing himself and prepared to counter.

• Su Han emerged from meditation with most of his injuries healed, and Elder Lin warned him not to risk his life in the tournament.
• Su Han drew You Wuying as his opponent and recognized that Youming Hall's Divine Soul attacks could trigger the Demonic Seed's backlash.
• You Wuying warned Su Han to concede, then vanished and attacked him from the shadows with corrosive Youming Ghost Qi.
• Su Han defended with Starlight Bodyguard and the Star Moon Sword Technique, but the repeated attacks eroded his body and Divine Soul and stirred the Demonic Seed.
• Su Han deliberately exposed an opening, and You Wuying appeared to strike his back; Su Han revealed that he had been waiting for him.

Su Han wounded You Wuying, then endured his Ghost Domain and unleashed a gray sword light embodying the end of all things. You Wuying fled the arena, but the sword light struck his escaping form.

• Su Han sensed You Wuying's true body and stabbed his shoulder with the Starfire Sword.
• You Wuying opened his Ghost Domain, suppressing Su Han's senses and letting Youming Ghost Qi erode him.
• Su Han used Star Moon Confluence to push back the Ghost Domain, then faced You Wuying's soul-devouring Ghost Shadows.
• Su Han realized a new sword intent and swept out a gray light that erased the Ghost Shadows and dissipated the Ghost Domain.
• You Wuying used the Youming Escape Technique to flee, but Su Han's sword light struck the black smoke.

Su Han defeated You Wuying with a devastating sword strike, then spent three days healing from severe injuries and suppressing the Demonic Seed. After learning that his quarterfinal opponent would be Lu Ming of the Xuantian Sect, Su Han resolved to fight despite Elder Lin’s concerns.

• Su Han used a gray sword light containing Finality intent to defeat You Wuying, who survived but suffered grave injuries.
• The presiding elder declared Su Han the winner, and Elder Lin and the others hurried him away to treat his critical condition.
• Su Han swallowed a Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering Pill and used the Primordial Star Art to heal and restrain the Demonic Seed.
• Over the next three days, the quarterfinal lineup was decided, and Su Han recovered roughly half his combat strength while You Wuying withdrew from the remaining matches.
• Elder Lin told Su Han that he would face Lu Ming, a powerful Xuantian Sect disciple, in three days and advised him to concede if necessary.
• Su Han decided he would still fight Lu Ming despite his injuries.

Su Han temporarily sealed the Demonic Seed at the cost of blood, strength, and cultivation, then recovered enough to enter the semifinals. He drew Lu Ming as his opponent, and their duel began with Lu Ming launching a fiery sword strike.

• Su Han used the Star Sealing Demon Seal and his Essence Blood to suppress the Demonic Seed for about one month, but his cultivation fell and his body was badly drained.
• Su Han spent three days recovering in the Quiet Room, while news of his duel with Lu Ming spread and most spectators favored Lu Ming.
• At the semifinal drawing, Su Han drew Lu Ming, who taunted him and promised that meeting him would end his run.
• Su Han and Lu Ming entered Main Arena Number One, where Lu Ming challenged Su Han to withstand three sword strikes.
• Lu Ming opened with the Heaven Burning Sword Art's Blazing Fire Plains, slashing a scorching crimson sword light toward Su Han.

Su Han countered Lu Ming’s Heaven Burning Sword Art with precise swordsmanship and then met his final attack with the Primordial Star Art. Their blades remained locked as Su Han’s starlight began seeping into Lu Ming’s flaming sword rainbow.

• Su Han dissolved Lu Ming’s first crimson sword strike with a casual upward slash.
• Lu Ming unleashed Fire Phoenix Scorches the Heavens, but Su Han used a pinpoint of starlight to dismantle the flame phoenix.
• Yun Lan recognized Su Han’s precise sword intent, while a Xuantian Sect elder dismissed it as a trick.
• Lu Ming acknowledged Su Han and launched the final form of the Heaven Burning Sword Art, Burn Heavens Boil Seas.
• Su Han used Starlight Reflecting the World to meet Lu Ming’s sword head-on, and his starlight began spreading into the flaming sword rainbow.

Su Han defeated Lu Ming in the tournament but severely weakened the seal holding back the Demonic Seed in his chest. With the seal likely to break within ten days, Su Han learned that he would face Ye Lingxiao next and resolved to fight despite his injuries.

• Su Han shattered Lu Ming's Heaven-Burning Sword Intent with his unusual starlight sword power, and Lu Ming admitted defeat before leaving the arena.
• Ye Qingxue helped the injured Su Han return to the Qingyun Sect residence, where he discovered that the Star Sealing Demon Seal was cracking and the Demonic Seed was eroding his body.
• Su Han tried to heal and stabilize the seal with medicinal pills, a spirit stone, and the Primordial Star Art, but made little progress and realized he needed a special star-attributed treasure or a breakthrough.
• Lin Xuan told Su Han that his next opponent was Ye Lingxiao and that the Sect Master had offered him the option to forfeit.
• Su Han refused to forfeit, believing that fighting Ye Lingxiao could give him a chance to break through.

Su Han entered his semifinal match against Ye Lingxiao despite his injuries and the failing seal containing the Demonic Seed, hoping the battle would give him a chance to break through. Their sword intents clashed, and Ye Lingxiao’s Dustless sword intent neutralized Su Han’s opening strike, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Lin Xuan warned Su Han to value his life, but Su Han resolved to face Ye Lingxiao to test his Sword Dao and seek a breakthrough.
• During two days in the Quiet Room, Su Han failed to stabilize the Star Sealing Demon Seal, which would shatter within seven days.
• Su Han arrived at the Central Plaza for his semifinal against Ye Lingxiao, whose refined swordsmanship and Dustless sword immediately made him wary.
• After the match began, Su Han and Ye Lingxiao tested each other’s sword momentum, and Ye Lingxiao’s perfected sword intent pressured Su Han’s Star Radiance Sword Intent.
• Su Han attacked with Green Edge, but Ye Lingxiao’s Dustless sword intent formed a purification domain that stopped and neutralized the strike.

Su Han used the opposing forces of star radiance and Demonic Energy to disrupt Ye Lingxiao’s Dustless sword intent, then risked his life to unleash a sword containing the primordial aura of chaos. The chapter ended as his gray sword line met Ye Lingxiao’s strongest defensive technique.

• Su Han noticed a flaw in Ye Lingxiao’s Dustless domain and combined star radiance with Demonic Energy to make its purification waver.
• Ye Lingxiao countered with Dustless: Return to Void, absorbing Su Han’s attack at the cost of visible strain.
• Su Han used Nine Transformations of Star Shift and Demon Shadow Clone, but Ye Lingxiao dispelled eight of his nine figures with one slash.
• Su Han declared he would stake his life on one final strike, then formed a gray sword aura that the Yunlan Sect Master recognized as chaos.
• Su Han named his attack Return to Origin, and Ye Lingxiao met it with Dustless: Heaven Purification as the gray line touched the first of his eighty-one defensive circles.

Su Han defeated Ye Lingxiao with his incomplete Chaos Return to Origin sword, but the strike worsened the seal containing the Demonic Seed. With only three days before the seal failed, Su Han resolved to fight Qin Mu in the final, hoping the duel would help him survive.

• Ye Lingxiao conceded after Su Han’s sword threatened to damage his Sword Heart, and the presiding elder declared Su Han the winner.
• Lin Xuan caught Su Han as he collapsed and took him away; after a day and a night, Su Han awoke to learn Sect Master Yun Lan had stabilized the Demonic Energy and his seal could last only three days.
• Lin Xuan told Su Han that Ye Lingxiao had left for the Sword Graveyard and had warned him that his unorthodox sword path could lead to ruin.
• Su Han insisted on fighting Qin Mu in the final, believing the duel could help him complete Chaos Return to Origin and find a way to survive.
• Su Han entered seclusion while Lin Xuan stood guard, but the Demonic Energy devoured his spiritual power whenever he tried to repair the seal.

Su Han survived the Demonic Seed’s attempt to take over his body when his dormant Innate Star Origin awakened and stabilized the Star Sealing Demon Seal. He began using Chaos Power to reshape the seal, forming a fragile Chaos Vortex that weakened the Demonic Seed.

• The Demonic Seed warned Su Han that his failing Star Sealing Demon Seal would break within days and tried to force him into submission with a surge of Demonic Energy.
• Lin Xuan heard Su Han’s agony and nearly entered the Quiet Room, but Su Han told him to stay outside.
• As the Demonic Energy threatened to overwhelm his consciousness, Su Han remembered his senior sister and the promise he had made to protect her.
• Su Han’s dormant Innate Star Origin awakened, healed his body, and restored the seal enough to silence the Demonic Seed temporarily.
• Su Han conceived a plan to rebuild the seal with Chaos Power and guided the remaining Power of Stars and Demonic Energy into a small, unstable Chaos Vortex.

After stabilizing the Demonic Seed with a miniature Chaos Vortex, Su Han entered the finals against Qin Mu, hoping the battle would help him break through. Qin Mu overwhelmed him with raw power, and Su Han charged into a deadly sword strike with Chaos Return to Origin shielding his blade.

• Su Han awakened after three days of cultivation with a temporarily stabilized Demonic Seed and a new ability to wield a trace of Chaos Power.
• Su Han rejected Lin Xuan’s offer to arrange seclusion after the finals and said his fight with Qin Mu would be his chance to break through.
• Su Han met Qin Mu in the Central Plaza finals and opened with Starlight Flowing Shadow, but Qin Mu knocked him back with a punch.
• Qin Mu shattered Su Han’s starlight barriers with Mysterious Heaven Mountain Opener and carved a deep trench into the arena with his sword.
• Su Han charged straight at Qin Mu’s horizontal sword slash as Chaos Return to Origin formed a thin gray membrane around the Green Edge Sword.

Su Han defeated Qin Mu with Chaos Power, but the Chaos Vortex collapsed and the Demonic Seed took control of him. As Su Han tried to kill Qin Mu, a mysterious white-robed woman stopped him.

• Su Han used his final Chaos Power to engulf Qin Mu, while the Chaos Vortex collapsed and shattered the Star Sealing Demon Seal.
• The released Demonic Energy demonized Su Han, and he broke Sect Master Yun Lan’s attempt to suppress him.
• Su Han attacked the wounded Qin Mu, but a white-robed woman struck him and halted his advance.

Fairy Yue Hua subdued the Chaos Demonic Seed inside Su Han and brought him to Qingyun Sect to be suppressed and purified, leaving his fate hidden from the public. The tournament results were announced with Qin Mu as champion, while the sect claimed Su Han had been killed.

• Fairy Yue Hua arrived at the arena, used moonlight to suppress the Demonic Seed, and put Su Han into a deep sleep.
• Fairy Yue Hua told Sect Master Yun Lan to award the championship to Qin Mu and announce that Su Han had been executed after falling into demonhood.
• Fairy Yue Hua carried Su Han to Bright Moon Peak and placed him within the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Array, which she said would take at least ten years to purify the Chaos Demonic Seed.
• Fairy Yue Hua remembered Su Han's gift and his promise to become an artifact forging master as she watched over him.
• Three days later, the sects learned that Qin Mu had won the tournament and that Fairy Yue Hua had supposedly killed Su Han.

Qingyun Sect concealed Su Han’s demonic corruption while Lin Xuan suspected that Yue Hua had taken him alive. On Bright Moon Peak, Yue Hua suppressed Su Han’s Chaos Demonic Seed and discovered that a Chaos Green Lotus seed might transform it into a Chaos Dao Body.

• Master Yun Lan ordered the Qingyun Sect elders to stop discussing Su Han and summoned Lin Xuan to the main hall.
• Lin Xuan rejected the claim that Yue Hua had killed Su Han and concluded that she had used the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Array to suppress him.
• Su Han awakened in the cocoon of light, attacked Yue Hua under the Demonic Seed’s influence, and briefly regained clarity when she intervened.
• Yue Hua spent three years of cultivation to seal Su Han and added nine layers of protection before he fell asleep again.
• Yue Hua searched the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Art and found a record claiming that a Chaos Green Lotus seed might reverse the Demonic Seed and forge a Chaos Dao Body.

Fairy Yue Hua learned that the Chaos Green Lotus might be found in the deadly Burial God Abyss, the only possible way to save Su Han from the Chaos Demonic Seed. As she prepared to attend the Demon Purge Assembly in secret, she asked Ye Lingxiao about Su Han’s unusual path and whether the seed could be purified.

• Fairy Yue Hua considered risking the Burial God Abyss to find the Chaos Green Lotus and save Su Han, while worrying about leaving him unguarded.
• Master Yun Lan reported that Su Han’s supposed execution had been announced and that Lin Xuan was investigating, so Fairy Yue Hua instructed him to tell Lin Xuan the truth but forbid further questions.
• Fairy Yue Hua decided to attend the Demon Purge Assembly secretly, and ordered Master Yun Lan to guard Su Han and Bright Moon Peak while she was away.
• Fairy Yue Hua contacted Ye Lingxiao, who said Su Han’s path of chaos might be dangerous but not necessarily doomed.
• Fairy Yue Hua asked Ye Lingxiao whether he knew how to completely purify the Chaos Demonic Seed.

Fairy Yue Hua learned that the Chaos Green Lotus in the Burial God Abyss might save Su Han by reversing his Chaos Demonic Seed and forging a Chaos Dao Body. After Su Han briefly awakened, she reinforced his seal and left to seek the lotus, entrusting him to Master Yun Lan.

• Ye Lingxiao told Fairy Yue Hua that an ancient record described a safe route through the Burial God Abyss and warned that greed there meant certain death.
• Over two months, Fairy Yue Hua researched the Burial God Abyss and prepared a possible route while guarding Su Han.
• Su Han awakened and remembered the Demonic Seed's eruption; after hearing that it had repeatedly controlled him, he asked Fairy Yue Hua to kill him.
• Fairy Yue Hua told Su Han she would seek the Chaos Green Lotus and ordered him to resist the Demonic Seed until she returned.
• Fairy Yue Hua spent ten years of cultivation reinforcing Su Han's seal, then entrusted him to Master Yun Lan and departed for the Burial God Abyss.

Fairy Yue Hua descended into Burial God Abyss seeking the Chaos Green Lotus, where she discovered demonic cultivators attacking a weakened seal. She drove them off and learned the seal had survived, then offered to escort the righteous cultivators out.

• Fairy Yue Hua entered Burial God Abyss and fought through gray mist creatures while conserving her spiritual power.
• Fairy Yue Hua discovered righteous and demonic cultivators battling near a rune-covered platform that sealed Blood Fiend Demon Venerable.
• Fairy Yue Hua joined the fight and defeated the demonic cultivators’ attacks with her Bright Moon technique.
• The black-robed elders escaped with a Blood Escape Talisman after recognizing Fairy Yue Hua had touched the threshold of Divine Transformation.
• The Xuantian Sect elder told Fairy Yue Hua that the seal had loosened but remained intact, and Fairy Yue Hua offered to escort the group out.