Chapter Summaries

Jiang Li led the attack on the Zhou Family, revealing that he had captured Zhou Yang before crushing the clan’s resistance. With the Demon Suppression Division moving in to exterminate the family, he and Murong Qing reached a blood-soaked secret passage where the missing Zhou Family Head might be hiding.

• Jiang Li confronted the Zhou Family elder and revealed that he had broken Zhou Yang’s weapon and captured him.
• The Emperor's World-Shocking Art took control of Jiang Li and killed the Qi Refining Peak elder with one punch, then slaughtered other Zhou Family members.
• Murong Qing told Jiang Li about a secret passage that might lead to the absent Zhou Family Head, and Jiang Li ordered that no one escape.
• The young captain led more than a thousand Demon Suppression Division soldiers into the Zhou Residence to exterminate the Zhou Family.
• Murong Qing sensed blood and wood-attributed spiritual energy inside the passage, while Li Xi healed Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li smashed open the passage entrance, and a stronger stench of blood poured out.

Jiang Li fought through the Zhou Family’s Underground Banyan Grotto and killed the Zhou Family Head, who had fused with the Yi Wood Spiritual Infant. The mission reward pushed Jiang Li’s cultivation beyond Qi Refining Level 9, leaving him bewildered by the apparent existence of Qi Refining Level 10.

• Jiang Li and Li Xi entered the Underground Banyan Grotto, where Li Xi recognized the blood-drinking vines as a spiritual treasure of heaven and earth.
• Two Foundation Establishment elders confronted the group, so Murong Qing held them off while Jiang Li and Li Xi continued deeper into the grotto.
• Jiang Li and Li Xi found the Zhou Family Head fused with the demonic tree, and he unleashed the vines throughout the grotto and destroyed the Zhou Residence above ground.
• Jiang Li fought the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Zhou Family Head with his fists, then used Skyburner after Li Xi restored his mana.
• Jiang Li killed the Zhou Family Head with his sword, and the mission reward increased his cultivation beyond Qi Refining Level 9 without advancing him to Foundation Establishment.
• Jiang Li realized he might have reached Qi Refining Level 10 and wondered whether such a realm existed.

After helping defeat the Zhou Family, Jiang Li learned that Li Xi possessed a Longevity Physique and accepted the family’s seized treasures, including a Golden Citadel and a secret manual. The people of Qinghe County praised him, awakening a new Emperor’s Status trait that granted him Myriad Laws Immunity within his territory.

• Jiang Li checked on Li Xi and learned that her Longevity Physique let her refine pill toxins into cultivation.
• Murong Qing identified the blood-tainted Yi Wood Spiritual Infant, and Jiang Li entrusted it to Li Xi to decide how to use it.
• The Demon Suppression Division thanked Jiang Li and offered him the Zhou Family’s assets, the Golden Citadel, and a half-volume secret manual.
• Jiang Li returned the Zhou Family’s wealth to the people of Qinghe County, whose residents gathered to praise him.
• Ten thousand people’s prayers condensed ten strands of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi and granted Jiang Li the Emperor’s Status trait.

Jiang Li returned to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land after his trip to Qinghe County, where his teacher discovered his unprecedented Qi Refining Level 10 cultivation and Glazed-Tier Mana. As he prepared for Foundation Establishment, he obtained the complete Carefree Wind-Riding Art from the Technique Pavilion and learned it was a divine ability-level movement technique.

• Jiang Li decided to cultivate the Carefree Wind-Riding Art after Murong Qing assured him the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land could protect him from the Cloudmist Dynasty.
• Jiang Li examined the Golden Citadel and found enough remaining prayer power to condense two strands of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi, bringing his total to twelve.
• Zhang Song offered Jiang Li a Fire Spirit Mushroom to improve his aptitude and help him reach Qi Refining Level 9, but Jiang Li revealed he had already reached Qi Refining Level 10.
• Zhang Song examined Jiang Li and found his cultivation was sound and his Mana was Glazed-Tier, then advised him to prepare for Foundation Establishment and attend the Flying Sword Competition if he wished.
• Jiang Li visited the Technique Pavilion, where the registration elder gave him the complete Carefree Wind-Riding Art and explained that it was a secret art bordering on divine abilities.

Jiang Li let the Carefree Wind-Riding Art control his body so it could experience the wind, and its rapid progress carried him into the Flying Sword Competition. After reaching minor mastery, the technique stole competitors’ tokens and provoked them with poetry, leaving Jiang Li fearing he would become the Holy Land’s public enemy.

• Jiang Li activated the Cultivation Technique Growth Plan and let the Carefree Wind-Riding Art take control of his body.
• The technique led Jiang Li to the Flying Sword Competition, where he ran along a rainbow bridge and quickly gained movement-technique progress.
• Jiang Li reached minor mastery, flew by merging with the wind, and recited poetry before the startled competitors.
• The Carefree Wind-Riding Art stole the Qi Refining disciples’ Competition Tokens and left them a taunting poem.
• The furious competitors chased Jiang Li, while he protested to the system and watched the technique gain even more progress from its excitement.

Jiang Li’s Carefree Wind-Riding Art swept him through the Flying Sword Competition, where he stole every contestant’s Competition Token and became champion. Eight days later, as he prepared for Foundation Establishment, the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art consulted other techniques and decided he should establish his foundation through enlightenment.

• Jiang Li’s Carefree Wind-Riding Art reached minor accomplishment, letting him move faster than Foundation Establishment cultivators and steal their Competition Tokens.
• The system’s technique drove Jiang Li to steal tokens from every competitor, drawing the attention of the disciples, elders, and Zhang Song.
• Jiang Li evaded the pursuing Inner Sect disciples until the referees declared him the competition’s sole champion, and Zhang Song defended his explanation that acting in a technique’s spirit helped him cultivate it.
• Eight days later, Jiang Li received a top-grade Fire Spirit Mushroom pill and began the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art’s Cultivation Technique Growth Plan.
• The Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art consulted the Dragon Slaying Sword, Emperor's World-Shocking Art, and Carefree Wind-Riding Art, then chose Enlightenment Foundation Establishment as Jiang Li’s path forward.

Jiang Li achieved Enlightenment Foundation Establishment through the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art, forging a Supreme Dao Foundation and reaching Foundation Establishment Second Layer. After disciples congratulated him, a mature woman suggested he meet the Holy Land’s other peerless Enlightenment Foundation Establishment genius and possibly form a marriage bond.

• Jiang Li chose Enlightenment Foundation Establishment and left his Cave Residence to seek an opportunity, stunning his master Zhang Song with the heavenly signs that followed.
• The Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art drew Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy around Jiang Li, creating auspicious phenomena that attracted Holy Land disciples, who gathered to cultivate within its range.
• After three days, Jiang Li realized the Dao, opened his Sea of Consciousness, and established his foundation; he then swallowed a top-grade Fire Spirit Mushroom pill and cultivated for five more days.
• The Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art completed its mission and forged Jiang Li’s Supreme Dao Foundation, doubling his divine sense range and advancing him to Foundation Establishment Second Layer.
• Outer Sect Disciples congratulated Jiang Li, and a beautiful mature woman proposed that he meet the Holy Land’s only other peerless Enlightenment Foundation Establishment genius and possibly form a marriage bond.

After Jiang Li achieved Enlightenment Foundation Establishment, he received gifts from Li Xi and Murong Qing, then discovered the full extent of his newfound strength. The next day, Zhang Song took him to the Myriad Methods Stone Stele Forest and began advising him on which three steles to choose.

• Murong Wanhe praised Jiang Li's Enlightenment Foundation Establishment and tried to arrange a meeting with Murong Qing, while Zhang Song defended his disciple.
• Li Xi and Murong Qing gave Jiang Li Foundation Establishment gifts, prompting gossip among the gathered disciples.
• Back in his Cave Residence, Jiang Li assessed his stronger body and abundant Glass-like Mana and resolved to cultivate the Holy Land's Sect-Protecting Technique.
• Zhang Song took Jiang Li to the Myriad Methods Stone Stele Forest and explained its significance, entry rules, and the Talent Monument, Sword Dao Stele, and Great Dao Monument he recommended.

Jiang Li entered the Myriad Methods Stone Stele Forest and received a True Yang Qilin Fire from the Talent Monument for his superior overall aptitude. He then far outpaced the other disciples at the Great Dao Monument, where his comprehensive assessment began.

• Zhang Song advised Jiang Li on the steles, and Jiang Li chose the Talent Monument, Sword Dao Stele, and Great Dao Monument.
• The Guardian Elder opened the secret realm early, and Jiang Li entered with six Foundation Establishment disciples who treated him as their leader.
• The Talent Monument rated Jiang Li’s overall aptitude as superior and bestowed a wisp of True Yang Qilin Fire.
• The other disciples received mostly average or below-average evaluations, while Jiang Li told them his rating was superior.
• Jiang Li walked nearly thirty paces to reach the Great Dao Monument, activating its comprehensive assessment.

Jiang Li earned the Great Dao Monument’s recognition, received the Profound Heaven Spirit Severing Swordplay, and approved the Dragon Slaying Sword’s evolution into the Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword. At the Sword Dao Stele, the evolved Sword Art took control, defeated successive Foundation Establishment Sword Cultivators, and reached the introductory stage while helping Jiang Li comprehend Sword Form Like Rainbow.

• The Great Dao Monument judged Jiang Li an exceptional successor candidate and bestowed the Profound Heaven Spirit Severing Swordplay as a divine ability.
• The Dragon Slaying Sword absorbed the new Sword Art and, with Jiang Li’s approval, evolved into the Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword.
• Jiang Li left the Great Dao Monument and went to the Sword Dao Stele, where he let the Sword Art control his body during the trial.
• The Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword used a branch to defeat the ancient general and rapidly absorbed his sword Dao insights.
• The Sword Art defeated increasingly powerful historical Sword Cultivators, reached 100% progress, and helped Jiang Li comprehend the Third Realm of the Way of the Sword, Sword Form Like Rainbow.

Jiang Li defeated the Heavenly Mystery Founder’s projection in the final Sword Dao Trial, cleared the trial, and gained the Fourth Stage of Sword Dao. The Sword Dao Stele publicly named him the examiner of a new seventeenth stage, drawing the attention of the disciples and Guardian Elder.

• Jiang Li used the beginner-stage Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword to destroy the Heavenly Mystery Founder’s projection, who told him to visit the Myriad Methods Stone Stele Forest after reaching the Golden Core Realm.
• The Sword Dao Stele declared that Jiang Li had cleared every trial and raised his sword dao realm to Sword Rainbow Dividing Light.
• The Sword Dao Stele named Jiang Li a historical afterimage and appointed him examiner of the new seventeenth stage, shocking the six Foundation Establishment disciples.
• Jiang Li left the Myriad Methods Stone Stele Forest with the six disciples, while the Guardian Elder worried about the unusually high spirit-stone consumption.
• The disciples excitedly recounted Jiang Li’s achievements to the Guardian Elder as Jiang Li wished they would stop drawing attention to him.

Jiang Li shocked the leaders of Heavenly Mystery Holy Land by clearing the Sword Dao Stele and defeating its founder’s projection, earning the Holy Master’s favor and access to a sect-protecting technique. After testing his sword arts, he began studying the Ten Directions Thunderous Exorcism Scripture, and the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art requested to fuse with it.

• The Guardian Elder summoned Zhang Song and the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master after Jiang Li cleared the Sword Dao Stele’s final stage and defeated the Heavenly Mystery Founder’s projection.
• Jiang Li revealed he had reached Sword Form Like Rainbow, and the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master gave him the Holy Master Token and urged him to cultivate the Ten Directions Thunderous Exorcism Scripture.
• At his Cave Residence, Jiang Li tested Sword Form Like Rainbow and found he lacked the Spiritual Sense and mana needed to use the Fourth Stage’s Sword Rainbow Dividing Light.
• Jiang Li used the Holy Master Token to obtain the Foundation Establishment chapter of the Ten Directions Thunderous Exorcism Scripture from the Technique Pavilion.
• As Jiang Li studied the scripture, the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art requested fusion and sublimation with it, and Jiang Li agreed.

Jiang Li fused two cultivation techniques into the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture and let it cultivate at Thunderclap Pool, where it formed its first lightning seed. As he left, the technique sensed a disciple’s sins and struck him down on its own, leaving Jiang Li to realize he had become a humanoid lightning tribulation.

• Jiang Li fused the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Art and the Ten Directions Thunderous Exorcism Scripture into the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture.
• Jiang Li noticed his possession ranking had risen sharply and suspected a Ten Thousand Demons Sect spy had revealed his Enlightenment Foundation Establishment.
• Jiang Li activated the Cultivation Technique Growth Plan, and the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture took him to Thunderclap Pool.
• Jiang Li absorbed lightning into his organs as the technique formed a lightning seed and cultivated for ten days before its supply of righteous conviction ran out.
• As Jiang Li left the mountain, his technique sensed a Foundation Establishment disciple’s sins and automatically struck him with lightning.

Jiang Li’s fused lightning cultivation method automatically struck sinners around him, leaving him worried that the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land would turn against him. Punishment Elder Cui Yan instead endorsed his actions and gave him the Heart Questioning Mirror, which activated the cultivation method’s Patrol Mode.

• Jiang Li realized his righteous cultivation methods had fused into a lightning art that automatically punished anyone it judged sinful.
• The lightning struck five Foundation Establishment disciples, strengthening Jiang Li’s Lightning Qi and cultivation as onlookers gathered.
• A burly disciple whose younger brother had been struck attacked Jiang Li and was struck by lightning himself.
• Punishment Elder Cui Yan backed Jiang Li, instructed him to expose sinful disciples, and entrusted him with the Heart Questioning Mirror.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture recognized Cui Yan’s support, fully activated its duty to punish on Heaven’s behalf, and enabled Patrol Mode.

Jiang Li’s Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture entered Patrol Mode, letting him expose and punish sinful disciples while rapidly strengthening his lightning arts. He discovered that Chen Guang was an undercover agent for the Yin Puppet Sect and summoned Golden Core Tribulation lightning over him.

• The system explained that Patrol Mode let the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture act as heavenly tribulation, replenish Jiang Li’s Mana, and grow stronger by cleansing sin.
• Jiang Li let the technique take control, and Punishment Elder Cui Yan backed him as he pursued sinful Inner Sect Disciples with the Heart Questioning Mirror.
• The mirror exposed a fleeing Sword Cultivator’s lie, and Jiang Li struck him with lightning until he confessed to stealing from and assaulting Rogue Cultivators.
• Jiang Li cleansed sins across the Heavenly Thunder Mountain Range, filling the lightning palace in his lungs and condensing a second lightning seed in his liver.
• Jiang Li pursued one of Chen Guang’s subordinates to the Cave Residences and struck him with lightning, while the technique gained the ability to draw down a trace of heavenly tribulation.
• Jiang Li identified Chen Guang as an undercover agent for the Yin Puppet Sect and its Sect Master’s illegitimate son, then summoned a thundercloud bearing Golden Core Tribulation lightning and told it to fall.

Jiang Li’s cultivation technique summoned a Golden Core Tribulation and killed Chen Guang, who was exposed as a Yin Puppet Sect spy. The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture gained a new trait, Oath of Justice, which let vows receive a response from Heaven and Earth.

• Jiang Li’s cultivation technique summoned a Golden Core Tribulation that trapped Chen Guang, and Jiang Li struck him down with a tribulation bolt.
• Holy Land Elders arrived and learned from witnesses that Jiang Li had triggered the tribulation and killed Chen Guang.
• Punishment Elder Cui Yan defended Jiang Li, who claimed Chen Guang was a Yin Puppet Sect spy.
• Law Enforcement Hall disciples searched Chen Guang’s Cave Residence and found a token linking him to the Yin Puppet Sect.
• Cui Yan praised Jiang Li and promised to apply for battle merits on his behalf.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture completed its first stage of punishment and gained the Oath of Justice trait.

Jiang Li discovered the potential of the “Oath of Justice” cultivation technique and watched “Emperor's World-Shocking Art” take control of his body to cultivate using Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi. After ten days, the technique ran out of Dragon Qi and added a demand for better living quarters to its wish list, leaving Jiang Li to wonder what the system was planning.

• Jiang Li considered how “Oath of Justice” could offer customizable rewards after he fulfilled its vow, then left the gathered Inner Sect disciples to lie low.
• Jiang Li checked his cultivation progress in his Cave Residence and chose to advance “Emperor's World-Shocking Art” with the Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi he had prepared.
• Under the technique’s control, Jiang Li traveled to the Thousand Jun Heavy Ground, carved a throne, and drew Dragon Qi from the Golden Citadel into his body.
• Over seven days, Jiang Li’s body absorbed Dragon Qi and top-grade body-tempering pills, developing signs of a nation forged into his flesh and bones.
• After three more days, “Emperor's World-Shocking Art” stopped because it had run out of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi and demanded better living quarters.

Jiang Li went with the Transformation Class to Heaven Sword Peak for a sword-riding lesson, where Instructor Rong Qing discovered the astonishing effects of his body tempering. At the Green Ripple Sword Pool, Jiang Li stepped into the water and chose to face all 3,600 strands of Azure Duckweed Sword Qi at once.

• Jiang Li’s hosted Emperor's World-Shocking Art demanded increasingly extravagant imperial comforts, and he tried to restrain its urge to show off.
• Li Xi invited Jiang Li to join the Transformation Class’s sword-riding lesson, and Rong Qing introduced herself as the replacement instructor for his master.
• Rong Qing praised Jiang Li’s sword talent and noticed that his body tempering had created seven Magnet Mountains and caused seedlings to grow in the Yuan Magnetic Zone.
• On the way to Heaven Sword Peak, Li Xi offered Jiang Li more body-tempering pills, while Murong Qing congratulated him on his physical breakthrough.
• Rong Qing brought the class to the Green Ripple Sword Pool, where disciples could test their sword dao and earn the right to live on Heaven Sword Peak’s fifth level.
• Before Rong Qing could finish warning him, Jiang Li charged into the pool on foot to face all 3,600 strands of Azure Duckweed Sword Qi.

Jiang Li crossed Green Ripple Sword Pool with his physical body, astonishing the watching disciples and earning two strands of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi. He then set his sights on Heaven Sword Peak’s seventh-level Sword Palace and went with Rong Qing to challenge the Hundred-Zhang Sword Ladder as crowds gathered.

• Jiang Li stepped into Green Ripple Sword Pool instead of using a lotus leaf, while Shen Lin and Murong Qing speculated about his reasons.
• The Emperor's World-Shocking Art protected Jiang Li from the Azure Duckweed Sword Qi as he walked across the pool and reached the opposite shore.
• The watching disciples erupted in amazement, and the Emperor's World-Shocking Art condensed two strands of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi from their astonishment.
• Jiang Li asked Rong Qing how to reach the seventh-level Sword Palace, and she explained that he would need to subdue the murderous obsessions in the Hundred-Zhang Sword Ladder.
• Rong Qing took Jiang Li to the ladder, while disciples across Heavenly Mystery Holy Land spread word of his challenge and hurried toward Heaven Sword Peak.

Jiang Li passed the Hundred-Zhang Sword Ladder, astonishing the disciples and elders of Heaven Sword Peak and earning a place in the Sword Palace. He met the Heaven Sword Peak Master, who offered him a hall and the chance to give a sword dao lecture, which Jiang Li saw as a way to strengthen his cultivation technique.

• Rong Qing explained that the Hundred-Zhang Sword Ladder tested a cultivator’s sword heart and required mastery of Sword Form Like Rainbow, while Jiang Li waited for the crowd to gather.
• Jiang Li climbed the ladder as the Emperor's World-Shocking Art repelled the sword owners’ killing obsessions, making the swords submit and drawing the gathered disciples’ admiration.
• Jiang Li reached the seventh level and qualified to reside in the Sword Palace, while the admiration of the crowd helped the Emperor's World-Shocking Art condense six strands of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi.
• The Emperor's World-Shocking Art considered challenging the Heaven Sword Peak Master for the summit, but Jiang Li ended the hosting before it could act.
• The Heaven Sword Peak Master welcomed Jiang Li as his grandson-disciple, offered him any hall in the Sword Palace, and explained that residents were expected to share their sword dao experience with Heaven Sword Peak’s disciples.
• Jiang Li decided that giving a sword dao lecture could help the Emperor's World-Shocking Art reach Minor Mastery.