Chapter Summaries

Jiang Li joined Murong Qing's subjugation squad and proved his sword skills to the skeptical Shen Lin. As the squad traveled toward a Yin Puppet Sect stronghold, Shen Lin's attempt to share sword-dao insights turned into him learning from Jiang Li.

• Jiang Li met the squad members, and Shen Lin objected to bringing along a Qi Refining Level 6 cultivator.
• Murong Qing vouched for Jiang Li, who demonstrated Fourth-grade Mana and Sword Qi Transformation, earning the squad's respect.
• The squad rented a large Flying Skiff and traveled toward a Yin Puppet Sect stronghold in Long River County while Murong Qing explained the battle plan.
• Li Xi speculated that Murong Qing had rented the boat because Jiang Li could not fly on a sword, and Jiang Li wondered if she had been looking after him.
• Shen Lin offered to share his sword-dao experience with Jiang Li, but soon found himself struggling to understand Jiang Li's profound insights.

Jiang Li impressed the Transformation Class disciples with his Sword Dao and led them to a Yin Puppet Sect stronghold, where he volunteered to enter its protective formation alone. The Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art began to take control as he prepared to infiltrate the estate.

• Jiang Li explained Sword Dao insights to Shen Lin and Murong Qing, earning Shen Lin's admiration and Murong Qing's belief that he could teach the Transformation Class.
• Shen Lin praised Jiang Li's Sword Dao, while Fang Shi and Li Xi reacted with surprise at his apparent skill.
• The group arrived at a Yin Puppet Sect stronghold hidden inside Mortal Manor and discovered an Illusion Formation surrounding it.
• After Li Fu explained that breaking the formation would cause a commotion, Jiang Li offered to enter alone and open it from within.
• Murong Qing gave Jiang Li a Snowflake Jade Pendant, while Li Xi and Li Rong supplied protective artifacts and Shen Lin and Fang Shi promised to break in if needed.
• The Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art began to take action as Jiang Li prepared to infiltrate the stronghold.

Jiang Li’s Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art took control of his body and infiltrated the Yin Puppet Sect stronghold, brainwashing its disciples while drawing the attention of Foundation Establishment cultivator Xia Di. The technique led Jiang Li into the stronghold’s experimental pavilion, where Dragon Slaying Sword declared the grafted Yin Corpses to be dragons.

• Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art used Jiang Li’s Teachings ability to convert the patrolling disciples and guards, then sent converted disciples to receive Murong Qing and the others.
• The technique continued deeper into the stronghold, where Xia Di confronted Jiang Li and pursued him after he fled.
• Jiang Li’s Shield of Justice blocked Xia Di’s bloody attacks as the technique ran toward a secluded pavilion protected by a formation.
• The technique passed through the Bewilderment Array and entered the pavilion, revealing more than a hundred dormant Yin Corpses modified with demonic beast parts.
• Dragon Slaying Sword judged the Yin Corpses with scaled tails to be dragons.

Jiang Li’s hosted body destroyed the Yin Puppet Sect outpost’s Yin Corpses, boosting Dragon Slaying Sword’s damage against dragon-type creatures, before Murong Qing and their companions confronted the outpost’s defenders. When a hidden Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator appeared, the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art and Dragon Slaying Sword triggered a cooperative skill, returning Jiang Li to full control in unattended mode.

• Jiang Li’s hosted body killed more than a hundred Yin Corpses, and Dragon Slaying Sword’s dragon-target damage bonus climbed to 110%.
• Murong Qing arrived and attacked the Demon Sect disciples, while Jiang Li remained motionless in hosted mode.
• Li Fu, Li Rong, Li Xi, Shen Lin, and Fang Shi joined Murong Qing and surrounded Xia Di after revealing they had silently dealt with the other outpost disciples.
• Xia Di called for Senior Brother Tang, who emerged and revealed that the Yin Puppet Sect knew the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land was preparing to act against it.
• Jiang Li recognized Tang as the outpost’s remaining threat, and the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art and Dragon Slaying Sword triggered a cooperative skill that ended automatic control and returned Jiang Li to unattended mode.

Jiang Li killed Xia Di and destroyed Tang Qi’s Blood Corpse, revealing his mastery of Sword Aura Manifestation. Tang Qi merged with his snake demon and surged to the peak of Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Tang Qi confronted Murong Qing and the other disciples with a Foundation Establishment Yin Corpse and a powerful snake demon, while Xia Di offered to hold off the group.
• Jiang Li struck Xia Di down with the Burning Sky Sword before he could finish speaking.
• Murong Qing and the others protected Jiang Li and forced Tang Qi back as Jiang Li prepared another Sword Aura attack.
• Jiang Li revealed Sword Aura Manifestation and destroyed Tang Qi’s Blood Corpse with a dragon-shaped Sword Aura.
• Tang Qi merged with the snake demon and transformed into a snake-man, raising his aura to the peak of Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Jiang Li and Murong Qing defeated Tang Qi after Jiang Li used Spirit Stones to strengthen his Dragon Slaying Sword. The victory triggered breakthroughs in Jiang Li’s cultivation method and spell, and he advanced to Qi Refining Level 7.

• Li Xi restored Jiang Li’s Mana while Shen Lin, Fang Shi, and the twin brothers protected him, and Murong Qing kept Tang Qi occupied.
• Jiang Li drained hundreds of Spirit Stones to condense an orange-gold sword aura, while Tang Qi failed to break through Murong Qing’s defense.
• Tang Qi tried to retreat, but Murong Qing used a pendulum artifact to distract him and give Jiang Li an opening.
• Jiang Li’s Dragon Slaying Sword transformed into a crimson dragon and killed Tang Qi, burning his body to ash.
• Jiang Li’s Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art gained progress and the Heart of Justice trait, raising him to Qi Refining Level 7.
• The Dragon Slaying Sword gained increased dragon damage and the Dragon’s Might trait.

After defeating Tang Qi, Jiang Li discovered the new powers of his justice-focused traits and decided to seize control of a Ten Thousand Demons Sect branch. He converted the Drunken Flower Brothel’s contact and workers, leaving the branch under his influence and planning to lure out Yuan Li.

• Murong Qing and the disciples returned from the destroyed Yin Puppet Sect stronghold, while Jiang Li concealed that his battle-ending attack had cost him little and celebrated his gains.
• On the journey home, Jiang Li discovered that Heart of Justice revealed people’s deeds and sins, and that the evolved Teachings trait could force lasting reform that spread to others.
• Jiang Li left the group at Frostfeather City and went to the Drunken Flower Brothel, a Ten Thousand Demons Sect branch, displaying the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s token to its contact, Nightingale.
• Jiang Li used Teachings to convert Nightingale and the brothel’s girls, effectively bringing the branch under his control.
• Jiang Li resolved to lure Yuan Li out and kill him.

Jiang Li lured Yuan Li into a trap at the Drunken Flower Brothel and killed him, avenging the years Yuan Li had exploited him. After returning to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land, Jiang Li learned that his actions had earned him an exception to enter the Transformation Class, and his master summoned him to the Main Peak.

• Jiang Li reflected on his slow cultivation and decided he needed to make the most of every chance to grow stronger.
• Nightingale told Jiang Li that Yuan Li had arrived, and Jiang Li went to meet him in the secret chamber.
• Jiang Li revealed himself to Yuan Li, while Nightingale and the other members of the Frost Feather Branch refused to help Yuan Li and sided with Jiang Li.
• Yuan Li launched a desperate attack, but Jiang Li killed him with a single strike and ordered his body thrown to the dogs.
• Jiang Li returned to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land, where Zhang Song told him he had been granted entry into the Transformation Class and summoned him to the Main Peak.

Jiang Li impressed the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land’s leaders with his swordsmanship and was chosen to inherit the Ten Directions Thunderous Exorcism Scripture, making him a Holy Son Candidate. Zhang Song then brought him to the Technique Pavilion to choose a body-tempering technique in preparation for Foundation Establishment.

• Jiang Li displayed Sword Aura Dragon Transformation before the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master and received praise for his swordsmanship and role in saving the Transformation Class disciples.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master offered Jiang Li an additional reward and selected him to inherit the Ten Directions Thunderous Exorcism Scripture once he reached Foundation Establishment.
• Li Xi’s grandmother thanked Jiang Li for saving her granddaughter and invited him to visit Dan Peak for pills and company.
• Zhang Song explained that the scripture was a sect-protecting mystic art whose inheritor became a Holy Son Candidate, and advised Jiang Li to strengthen his body before cultivating it.
• Zhang Song took Jiang Li to the Technique Pavilion to choose a body-tempering technique, where the registration elder assumed Jiang Li had come to switch spells.

Jiang Li chose the Emperor's World-Shocking Art to strengthen his body and received Transformation Class privileges and contribution points. After his hosted cultivation advanced his realm, the technique rejected the Earth Vein Qi supplied for its cultivation, leaving Jiang Li stunned.

• Zhang Song defended Jiang Li's sword talent to the registration elder and warned him not to become arrogant.
• Jiang Li chose the Emperor's World-Shocking Art, which could use Earth Vein Qi to cultivate an acquired special physique.
• Zhang Song gave Jiang Li Earth Vein Qi and explained his Transformation Class privileges, including five thousand contribution points and priority access to resources.
• Jiang Li returned to his Cave Residence and used Cultivation Technique Hosting to cultivate the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art for eighteen days, advancing his Qi Refining cultivation.
• Jiang Li activated hosting for the Emperor's World-Shocking Art, but the technique looked at the Earth Vein Qi and judged the resources unworthy of an emperor.

Jiang Li let the Emperor's World-Shocking Art control his body as it sought superior cultivation resources, drawing attention by claiming all the Earth Vein Qi at the chamber. The technique instead cultivated with Dragon Qi and quickly reached its beginner stage, leaving Jiang Li alarmed by its unusual effects.

• Jiang Li allowed Emperor's World-Shocking Art to guide him outside, where it complained about his Flying Skiff and resolved to acquire a warship with an imperial palace.
• Jiang Li arrived at the Earth Vein Primordial Qi Chamber, where the waiting disciples watched him enter.
• The female elder revealed that Jiang Li could take all forty-six portions of Earth Vein Qi because he belonged to the Transformation Class, and the other disciples left empty-handed.
• Emperor's World-Shocking Art monopolized the quota and began cultivating, earning Jiang Li a temporary thirty percent efficiency boost.
• Jiang Li called upon the Dragon Vein, and golden Dragon Qi entered his body to reforge his meridians.
• After a few hours, Emperor's World-Shocking Art reached its beginner stage, covering Jiang Li's skin with mountain-and-river patterns and producing effects unlike the technique's expected ones.

Jiang Li's altered Emperor's World-Shocking Art gave him a powerful new physique and the Emperor's Heart trait, which could gather prayer power into dragon qi. He went to a Transformation Class gathering, where Li Xi's public greeting drew attention and caused the technique to revive its meddlesome imperial ambitions.

• Jiang Li discovered that his new mountain-and-river-patterned body could withstand a spirit artifact, chipping the Qingang Sword when he struck himself with it.
• Jiang Li learned that the Emperor's World-Shocking Art needed dragon qi and that the Emperor's Heart could gather prayer power to create it.
• Jiang Li received an assembly notice and asked the female elder where to find the Thousand Jun Heavy Ground; after he left, she found the spirit plants bowing toward where he had cultivated.
• Jiang Li arrived at the Thousand Jun Heavy Ground and saw Murong Qing and Li Xi among the young Transformation Class cultivators gathered there.
• The technique urged Jiang Li to pursue beauties, but he refused its hosting; when Li Xi called out to him, the technique reignited the Emperor's Heart and claimed that making beauties fall for him was the emperor's superior path.

Jiang Li joined the Transformation Class’s training at Thousand Jun Heavy Ground, where he discovered Yuan Magnetic Force could refine Mana and strengthen the body. After entering the training area, his Emperor's World-Shocking Art made the pressure feel like a massage and prompted a request to begin automated cultivation.

• Li Xi greeted Jiang Li warmly, and Murong Qing, Shen Lin, and other disciples gathered around him, drawing attention to their familiarity.
• Instructor Wang Bo explained the Transformation Class’s body-refinement training and brought the disciples to Thousand Jun Heavy Ground, where Yuan Magnetic Force could temper the body and refine Mana.
• Wang Bo set the disciples’ carrying requirements and told Jiang Li to circulate his Body Refinement Method against the magnetic pressure.
• Li Xi and Murong Qing warned Jiang Li about the pain of first-time tempering and the need for a Spirit Extraction Elixir to heal bodily damage.
• Jiang Li entered the magnetic zone and circulated Emperor's World-Shocking Art, which made the pressure feel like a massage and asked whether to enable automated cultivation.

Jiang Li let the Emperor's World-Shocking Art take control as he tempered his body and Mana in the Thousand Jun Heavy Ground, far outlasting the other disciples. He left the Yuan Magnetic Zone with fourth-grade Mana and discovered that the assembled disciples had watched him bear at least three Magnet Mountains.

• Jiang Li accepted the Emperor's World-Shocking Art's request to host his body and began tempering himself beneath the Yuan Magnetic Force.
• Li Xi and Shen Lin emerged after more than forty minutes and found Jiang Li still inside, while Murong Qing and other Foundation Establishment disciples also later discovered he had outlasted them.
• Wang Bo used the Magnetic Observation Technique and confirmed Jiang Li could bear two Magnet Mountains without reaching his limit.
• Fang Shi emerged proudly claiming his physical body was invincible below Foundation Establishment, then saw Jiang Li bearing at least three Magnet Mountains and admitted his defeat.
• Jiang Li's Mana became fourth-grade quality, and after ending the hosting he found himself alone inside the zone while seventeen figures stared at him in shock.

Jiang Li astonished the Transformation Class with his strength in the Yuan Magnetic Zone, gained a promise of a powerful acquired physique, and condensed Dragon Qi through the Emperor's World-Shocking Art. The Myriad Desire Demon Lord then ordered him to take over as the undercover contact in the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land, leaving Jiang Li intent on finding the Inner Sect agent who knew of him.

• Jiang Li carried three Magnet Mountains for three hours, shocking the disciples and drawing Li Xi's attention.
• Wang Bo told Jiang Li that he could earn a powerful acquired physique by carrying ten Magnet Mountains within a year.
• Jiang Li returned to his Cave Residence, examined the Dragon Qi he had condensed, and planned to gather more contribution points and cultivate further.
• The Myriad Desire Demon Lord summoned Jiang Li through the blood-red token and ordered him to replace the missing undercover contact.
• Jiang Li learned that an Inner Sect agent knew about his identity and decided he needed to find that person quickly.

Jiang Li learned the Ten Thousand Demons Sect had multiple undercover agents inside the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land, then joined Murong Qing and Li Xi on their way to the inner hall, where he found a bounty suited to exposing them. When the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art identified a passing young man as a deeply sinful demonic cultivator, it gave Jiang Li three escalating options for dealing with him.

• Jiang Li reviewed the Ten Thousand Demons Sect's undercover-agent list and memorized the identities of eight agents lurking in the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land.
• Jiang Li met Murong Qing and Li Xi at the Law Enforcement Hall, and Murong Qing led him to the inner hall to find more challenging tasks.
• Li Xi gave Jiang Li several valuable top-grade pills for improving his physical strength, explaining that Wang Dao had urged him to train his body.
• Jiang Li found a long-term bounty offering three thousand contribution points for exposing each demonic undercover agent or cultivator in the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land.
• Jiang Li spotted a refined young man whose dark crimson aura marked him as deeply sinful, and the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art offered rewards for reporting, capturing, or eliminating him and his protectors.

Jiang Li’s Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art exposed Zhou Yang as a demonic cultivator and forced a confrontation outside the Law Enforcement Hall. The chapter left Zhou Yang gravely struck after Jiang Li broke his spirit artifact and blasted him backward.

• Jiang Li chose the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art’s option that granted mana purification and let the technique take control of his body.
• Murong Qing and Li Xi trusted Jiang Li’s warning that Zhou Yang was a demonic cultivator and discussed Zhou Yang’s rapid rise and Bloodfiend Blade Art.
• The technique followed Zhou Yang out of the Law Enforcement Hall, then publicly accused him of being a demonic cultivator.
• Zhou Yang attacked Jiang Li with his Nine-Ringed Curved Saber and the Bloodfiend Blade Art.
• The technique relinquished control, and Jiang Li caught Zhou Yang’s strike, snapped the saber with his bare hand, and struck Zhou Yang in the chest.

Jiang Li exposed Zhou Yang as a demonic cultivator, and Punishment Elder Cui Yan confirmed the evidence with the Heart Questioning Mirror. Jiang Li, Murong Qing, and Li Xi prepared to investigate the Zhou Family, which had supplied Zhou Yang with Incense and Fire Prayer Power.

• Jiang Li defeated Zhou Yang with one palm and accused him of being a demonic cultivator.
• Murong Qing and Li Xi arrived with Cui Yan, who used the Heart Questioning Mirror to reveal Zhou Yang’s concealed blood qi and ordered him taken for interrogation.
• Murong Qing reasoned that Zhou Yang’s Incense and Fire Prayer Power pointed to a force behind him, most likely the Zhou Family.
• Jiang Li agreed to investigate the Zhou Family, and Murong Qing and Li Xi volunteered to join him.
• Cui Yan told the group that the Zhou Family had supplied Zhou Yang with Incense and Fire Prayer Power and that its head had reached Foundation Establishment; he assigned them the investigation bounty mission.

Jiang Li, Murong Qing, and Li Xi traveled to Qinghe County to investigate the Zhou Family’s suspected demonic cultivation and Incense and Fire Prayer Power. After witnessing Zhou Yi’s men torment a woman who accused the family of murder and abducting children, Jiang Li let the Emperor's World-Shocking Art take control and killed Zhou Yi with a single kick.

• Jiang Li accepted the bounty mission and learned that the Zhou Family’s ancestor had reached Foundation Establishment while the Cloudmist Dynasty’s forces were weakened by a war between dynasties.
• Murong Qing warned that the Zhou Family’s demonic arts and Incense and Fire Prayer Power had left Qinghe County’s situation beyond the Demon Suppression Division’s control.
• Three days later, Jiang Li, Murong Qing, and Li Xi reached Qinghe County and saw Zhou Yi’s lackeys trying to drag away a woman who accused the Zhou Family of killing her husband and taking children.
• When Zhou Yi ordered his men to seize the woman and child, the Emperor's World-Shocking Art answered the people’s prayers and took control of Jiang Li’s body.
• Jiang Li kicked Zhou Yi through more than a dozen shops, leaving him dead in the street.

After Jiang Li killed Zhou Yi, he rallied the young lieutenant and the Demon Suppression Division to strike back against the Zhou Family. The soldiers surrounded the Zhou Residence, where Jiang Li arrived with Zhou Yi’s corpse as the confrontation began.

• Li Xi killed Zhou Yi’s two fleeing servants, while the young lieutenant warned Jiang Li that the Zhou Family would retaliate.
• Jiang Li’s Emperor’s World-Shocking Art prompted him to urge the lieutenant to stop accepting the Zhou Family’s abuses, and the lieutenant knelt to ask him to strengthen the Demon Suppression Division.
• Jiang Li ordered the Demon Suppression Division to surround the Zhou Family, and the lieutenant mobilized more than a thousand soldiers.
• A Zhou Family elder confronted the soldiers, and armed Zhou Family members emerged from the residence, revealing traces of Demonic Path aura.
• Jiang Li arrived at the Zhou Residence with Zhou Yi’s corpse and asked the Zhou Family if they had been looking for him.