Chapter Summaries

Jiang Li accepted the position of Heaven Sword Peak's senior brother after passing the sword ladder, then tried to avoid the attention his new status brought. On the day of his Sword Dao lecture, he activated a plan to supply the final four strands of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi needed for his cultivation technique to reach Minor Achievement.

• The Heaven Sword Peak Master gave Jiang Li the senior brother token and charged him with restoring the peak's prestige through his Sword Dao lecture.
• Jiang Li descended the sword ladder to the disciples' admiration, and Li Xi and Murong Qing celebrated his new position.
• Huo Wu asked Jiang Li for his Communication Jade Slip, but he declined and directed her to his upcoming lecture; he then reassured Li Xi that she and Murong Qing were prettier.
• News of Jiang Li's achievement spread throughout the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land, and Heaven Sword Peak announced his forthcoming Sword Dao lecture.
• On the lecture day, Jiang Li activated the Cultivation Technique Growth Plan and prepared to provide the final four strands of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi to Emperor's World-Shocking Art.

Jiang Li lectured Heaven Sword Peak’s disciples on swordsmanship, earning their admiration and gathering Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi before heading into seclusion. There, a Ten Thousand Demons Sect undercover agent ordered him to steal the Yin Puppet Sect’s Corpse Refining Technique research from the Law Enforcement Hall, under the scrutiny of Myriad Desire Demon Lord.

• Jiang Li used Cultivation Technique Hosting to deliver a sword lecture, deepening his own understanding while Emperor's World-Shocking Art gathered Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi.
• Li Yi dismissed a disciple who criticized Jiang Li, listened intently, and later acknowledged Jiang Li as the rightful Heaven Sword Peak Chief.
• Jiang Li regained control after the lecture, learned he had gathered thirteen strands of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi, and planned to seclude himself for about a month.
• Jiang Li sensed a Ten Thousand Demons Sect undercover agent near Thousand Jun Heavy Ground and went to meet him.
• The agent told Jiang Li to use his Law Enforcement Hall identity to obtain the Yin Puppet Sect’s latest Corpse Refining Technique research, saying Myriad Desire Demon Lord wanted him to act quickly.
• Jiang Li suspected the assignment tested his loyalty and agreed to carry it out.

Jiang Li's Emperor's World-Shocking Art reached minor accomplishment, giving him a healing Emperor's Body, and he arranged to build an imperial-style palace to gather more Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi. At the Thunder Pool Chamber, the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture abandoned cultivation to seek out a like-minded person in danger of turning away from justice, whom Jiang Li suspected was his teacher, Zhang Song.

• After twelve days of cultivation, the Emperor's World-Shocking Art formed a State Altar Bone and granted Jiang Li the Emperor's Body, which healed wounds using the recovery of his territory.
• Jiang Li tested the new trait by cutting his arm with Skyburner and watched the wound heal almost instantly; he then considered how to lure out and kill Deacon Qin.
• Jiang Li visited the Heavenly Craft Hall and asked Zheng Gong to build a Human Emperor Palace atop the Sword Palace, using his Holy Master Token to cover the cost.
• Jiang Li returned to the Thunder Pool Chamber and activated the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture, expecting it to cultivate toward his Foundation Establishment breakthrough.
• The cultivation technique instead ran off to help a confused person who was about to turn away from justice, and Jiang Li suspected its target was Zhang Song.

Jiang Li reached Divine Flame Mountain Manor after learning that its Young Master was accused of abducting civilians and that the manor was suspected of harboring demonic cultivators. His cultivation technique issued an Oath of Justice to purge the manor, leaving Jiang Li poised to begin the search.

• Jiang Li traveled to Jiangzhou after his cultivation technique refused to call for reinforcements.
• Jiang Li learned that the Demon Suppression Division had surrounded Divine Flame Mountain Manor after its Young Master fled there following accusations of abducting civilians and killing investigators.
• General Wang explained that manor disciples had resisted the siege and some showed signs of demonic alteration linked to corpse-refining techniques.
• Jiang Li introduced himself as a disciple of Heavenly Mystery Holy Land and declared that he had come to eliminate demons.
• Jiang Li's cultivation technique issued an Oath of Justice to eradicate the manor's sinners and reform their accomplices, then prepared to search the mountain.

Jiang Li confronted Divine Flame Mountain Manor and exposed its disciples’ crimes before severely injuring Elder Qiu and battling Ji Changming. As Ji Changming began to lose, the Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword eagerly requested permission to fight because it mistook “a dragon among men” for an actual dragon.

• Lu Dali led Jiang Li and Demon Suppression Division captains toward Divine Flame Mountain Manor, where they encountered Ji Changming and Elder Qiu’s fleeing disciples.
• Elder Qiu claimed the manor’s disciples had been forced into demonic cultivation, but Jiang Li accused them of killing mortals to nourish demon beasts.
• Jiang Li struck Elder Qiu with lightning, severely injuring him and revealing a turtle shell grafted into his body.
• Ji Changming descended from the mountain and attacked Jiang Li, but Jiang Li’s lightning blasted apart his shoulder despite his attempt to dodge.
• After Ji Changming’s disciples questioned how their Young Master could be losing, the Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword asked Jiang Li to let it fight the supposed dragon.

Jiang Li’s hosted Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword killed Ji Changming with Sword Form Like Rainbow and gained the Thunder Intent trait. After the Demon Suppression Division cleared the remaining demons, Jiang Li entered Divine Flame Mountain Manor, where the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture tossed Ji Changming’s corpse before his parents and Zhang Song.

• The Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword took over hosting, and Jiang Li used Sword Form Like Rainbow to kill Ji Changming with a second sword rainbow.
• The sword art gained ten percent progress and the Thunder Intent trait, while the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture resumed hosting and killed the silver-haired old man and the pleading Divine Flame Mountain Manor disciples.
• The Scripture’s purge increased Jiang Li’s Lightning Qi progress by twenty percent, and Lu Dali praised Jiang Li before explaining the manor’s remaining strength and history.
• Jiang Li and the Demon Suppression Division entered Divine Flame Mountain Manor and found Zhang Song inside an array with the Divine Fire True Person and his wife.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture declared that like-minded people should awaken from their demonic hearts and threw Ji Changming’s corpse into the palace before his parents.

Jiang Li exposed the demons hidden within Divine Flame Mountain Manor after killing Ji Changming, and the Godfire Sect Master let his demon wife escape while preparing to fight Zhang Song. Jiang Li pursued her, and his Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture borrowed power from Heaven and Earth to transform into the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Body.

• Jiang Li threw Ji Changming's corpse into the Divine Fire Great Hall, and the Godfire Sect Master accused Zhang Song of breaking his promise to spare his only son.
• Zhang Song defended Jiang Li and said Ji Changming had colluded with the Yin Puppet Sect, transformed into a demon, and fed on mortals.
• Jiang Li revealed that the Sect Master's Wife and the Divine Flame Mountain Manor disciples were demons, then used the Heart-Questioning Mirror to challenge the Sect Master's denials.
• The Sect Master's Wife revealed her golden pupils, and the Godfire Sect Master admitted she had transplanted a Golden Winged Ferocious Tiger body and urged her to flee.
• The Sect Master's Wife escaped on golden wings as the Godfire Sect Master faced Zhang Song, and Jiang Li went after her.
• Jiang Li's Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture swore an oath and borrowed Heaven and Earth's power to transform into the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Body.

Jiang Li used the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Body to defeat Liu Mei, the wife of Divine Flame Mountain Manor's Sect Master, after she fled with a demon body. He gained more Lightning Qi, sealed her corpse in a coffin, and left Zhang Song stunned by his disciple's strength.

• Jiang Li discovered that the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture had granted him the Golden Core-level Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Body and pursued Liu Mei at lightning speed.
• Liu Mei accused Jiang Li of killing her son and tried to flee, but he struck her repeatedly with purple lightning.
• Jiang Li explained that Liu Mei was the chief culprit behind Divine Flame Mountain Manor's fall and defeated her when she attacked him.
• Liu Mei died after warning that Jiang Li's upright nature would make him an enemy of the Demonic Cult, and the technique's conviction earned Jiang Li enough merit to greatly increase his Lightning Qi and Mana.
• Jiang Li placed Liu Mei's corpse in a wooden coffin, and Zhang Song arrived and was shocked when Jiang Li said he had won by luck.

After destroying Divine Flame Mountain Manor, Jiang Li stayed in Jiangzhou to avoid attention, received a merit-given Golden Jade, and learned he owed heaven and earth a hundred sinners for borrowing divine thunder. He began cultivating the Carefree Wind-Riding Art, whose training unexpectedly produced a tornado.

• Zhang Song warned Jiang Li to keep a low profile and beware of the Yin Puppet Sect, then returned to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land.
• Jiang Li completed the Oath of Justice and received a Golden Jade that could raise his metal spiritual root to a Heavenly Spiritual Root.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture demanded that Jiang Li eliminate one hundred sinners within three months to repay his borrowed power.
• Jiang Li agreed to help the Demon Suppression Division with demonic calamities and settled into Divine Flame Mountain Manor.
• Jiang Li activated the Cultivation Technique Growth Plan and began training the Carefree Wind-Riding Art, which formed a small tornado.

Jiang Li cultivated the Carefree Wind-Riding Art by guiding a growing tornado down Divine Fire Mountain and toward Jiangzhou, while the Demon Suppression Division evacuated nearby residents. When three Yin Puppet Sect disciples attacked him, he decided to redirect the wind disaster toward their branch headquarters.

• Jiang Li merged two wind disasters, creating a larger tornado and helping the Carefree Wind-Riding Art comprehend Wind Intent.
• Lu Dali recognized Jiang Li controlling the tornado and ordered residents near Divine Fire Mountain to relocate, with the Demon Suppression Division promising compensation for damage.
• Jiang Li guided the hurricane into Jiangzhou, where cultivators gathered and learned that the wind herder was a disciple of the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land.
• Three black-robed Yin Puppet Sect disciples attacked Jiang Li with blood-colored force rain, but he instinctively dodged their assault.
• Jiang Li identified the attackers as sinful targets and silently asked the system to redirect the wind disaster toward the Yin Puppet Sect's Jiangzhou branch.

Jiang Li directed a growing wind disaster toward the Yin Puppet Sect's hidden branch on Lakeheart Island while Liu Yuan and two disciples tried to stop him. The storm shattered the branch's protection array and began destroying the stronghold as Jiang Li chanted over the destruction.

• Liu Yuan and two Yin Puppet Sect disciples attacked Jiang Li while he controlled the wind disaster, but he evaded their strikes without breaking focus.
• Liu Yuan realized the storm was heading for the sect's hidden branch and sent two disciples to warn the Golden Core Elder at Lakeheart Island.
• The Golden Core Elder learned Jiang Li had created the wind disaster, killed one returning disciple, and ordered the others to activate the Sect Protection Array.
• Jiang Li drove the wind disaster into the blood-colored array, breaking it and unleashing the storm upon Lakeheart Island and its Yin Puppet Sect disciples.
• Jiang Li chanted a verse as the wind disaster swept through the stronghold, tearing apart buildings, terrain, and the sect's disciples.

Jiang Li’s wind disaster destroyed the Yin Puppet Sect’s Lakeheart Island stronghold, and he gained the mastered Qilin Step movement technique. He killed the surviving Golden Core elder and pursued Liu Yuan, leaving the Jiangzhou cultivators stunned by his strength.

• The wind disaster devastated the Yin Puppet Sect branch on Lakeheart Island, while Liu Yuan realized he had led Jiang Li there.
• Jiang Li’s Carefree Wind-Riding Art mastered its movement technique and gained the new entry Qilin Step.
• Blood Fiend True Person emerged from underground and charged Jiang Li, who overpowered him in a physical clash and killed him with his sword.
• Liu Yuan fled in a burst of blood mist, but Jiang Li used his movement technique to catch him and kill him with a seven-colored sword strike.
• The Jiangzhou cultivators watched in shock as Jiang Li sheathed his sword.

After destroying the Yin Puppet Sect’s stronghold, Jiang Li advanced to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and tested his powerful new Great Purity Lightning. He obtained the sect’s corpse-refinement records and welcomed Jiangzhou’s cultivators, whose homage and gifts helped spread his fame and increase his Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi.

• Jiang Li broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage as his Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture gained Great Purity Lightning.
• Jiang Li asked Lu Dali and the Demon Suppression Division to search the Yin Puppet Sect stronghold for its corpse-refinement technology.
• Jiang Li tested Great Purity Lightning and found that it could pierce the reinforced Divine Fire Great Hall but consumed ten drops of mana per strike.
• Lu Dali delivered the recovered Demonic Corpse Refinement Technique, which recorded the first two stages of the Yin Puppet Sect’s methods.
• Jiang Li agreed to meet Jiangzhou’s cultivation clans and sects, accepted the Demon Suppression Division’s gift, and received a steady stream of visitors and offerings.
• The Emperor’s World-Shocking Art gained three portions of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi as Jiang Li’s fame spread and cultivators paid homage.

Jiang Li returned to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land after gathering gifts and merits in Jiangzhou, intending to report his achievements to the Law Enforcement Hall. He arrived just as investigators revealed that a Foundation Establishment disciple had destroyed the Yin Puppet Sect branch, and the investigator recognized the legendary culprit as Chief Jiang.

• Jiang Li counted the gifts from Jiangzhou's cultivators, including 34,800 Spirit Stones and two Flying Sword Hairpins, and infused the hairpins with Sword Rainbows.
• Jiang Li returned to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land and went to the Law Enforcement Hall, where Zhang Song explained that the hall had sent investigators to Jiangzhou to root out the Yin Puppet Sect branch.
• Jiang Li realized the Law Enforcement Hall's investigation would expose his destruction of the Yin Puppet Sect stronghold before he could report his merits discreetly.
• An investigation team leader announced that a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Heavenly Mystery Holy Land disciple had destroyed the Yin Puppet Sect branch and slain a Golden Core Elder.
• The investigation team leader noticed Jiang Li and recognized him as the cultivator described by Jiangzhou's witnesses, calling him Chief Jiang.

Jiang Li admitted that he had destroyed the Yin Puppet Sect’s Jiangzhou branch and impressed the Law Enforcement Hall, where Vice Hall Master Bai Hong offered to take him as a disciple. He returned to Heaven Sword Peak, explained his unusual body-refinement method and imperial palace project to Zhang Song, then went to the Thunder Pool to advance his cultivation.

• Jiang Li admitted to Zhang Song and the Punishment Elders that he had killed the Golden Core cultivator and wiped out the Yin Puppet Sect’s Jiangzhou branch.
• Bai Hong praised Jiang Li’s physique and invited him to pursue a dangerous opportunity involving the Demon Race, while Zhang Song objected when Bai Hong hinted at taking Jiang Li as a disciple.
• Jiang Li declined Bai Hong’s guidance, explaining that the Emperor’s World-Shocking Art advanced through Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi and that he was cultivating a Sage Emperor Body.
• Jiang Li explained that he was building the Human Emperor Palace to gather Incense and Fire Prayer Power, and Zhang Song promised to oversee its luxurious construction.
• Jiang Li went to the Thunder Pool Chamber and activated the cultivation plan to connect his twelve meridians and progress toward the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• The system took control of Jiang Li’s body, and he drank a drop of Thunder Pool Fluid.

Jiang Li visited Li Xi after she achieved Enlightenment Foundation Establishment and gave her a protective hairpin. He then chose the Spirit Controlling Art, whose automated cultivation plan turned toward using the divine sense in his Ten Thousand Demons Sect identity token.

• Jiang Li learned that Li Xi had achieved Enlightenment Foundation Establishment and went to Dan Peak to see her.
• Jiang Li gave Li Xi a Flying Sword Hairpin that could unleash Golden Core-level power three times, then tied it into her hair.
• Jiang Li chose the Spirit Controlling Art at the Technique Pavilion despite its dangerous method of tempering the Primordial Spirit.
• Jiang Li activated the Cultivation Technique Growth Plan, and the technique devised a way to strengthen his soul by absorbing other spirits.
• Jiang Li's hosted body took out his Ten Thousand Demons Sect identity token, which contained a wisp of the Myriad Desire Demon Lord's divine sense, and he urgently tried to stop the system.

Jiang Li's Spirit Controlling Art captured a wisp of the Myriad Desire Demon Lord's divine sense and tempered it in the Sun Moon Divine Furnace, rapidly strengthening Jiang Li's spiritual sense. After six days, the wisp had shrunk and Jiang Li's spiritual sense reached Foundation Establishment Peak, but the Myriad Desire Demon Lord's source began replenishing it, leaving the struggle unresolved.

• Jiang Li's hosted Spirit Controlling Art pulled the Myriad Desire Demon Lord's divine sense incarnation into his Sea of Consciousness despite Jiang Li's alarm.
• The Spirit Controlling Art formed the Sun Moon Divine Furnace and burned the captured divine sense with yin-yang flame, causing the Myriad Desire Demon Lord to scream and threaten Jiang Li.
• Over three days, the furnace tempered the wisp and its white mist nourished Jiang Li's Sea of Consciousness, expanding his spiritual sense range.
• Jiang Li realized the Spirit Controlling Art could imprison, temper, and control lingering spiritual sense, eventually making it serve him as Imperial Spirit.
• After another three days, the wisp had shrunk to palm size and Jiang Li's spiritual sense had reached one thousand meters, but the Myriad Desire Demon Lord's source began replenishing it.
• The Myriad Desire Demon Lord reopened his scarlet eyes and challenged Jiang Li to refine his spiritual sense source completely, threatening to watch for his eventual destruction.

Jiang Li used the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s trapped spiritual consciousness to strengthen his own, then summoned the Ten Thousand Demons Sect’s undercover agents after learning they suspected Li Xi had the Longevity Physique. He attacked the agents at Spirit Plant Peak, and the dying Sun Yang exposed Jiang Li as their Undercover Contact Person before the gathered disciples.

• Jiang Li’s spiritual consciousness grew powerful enough to rival a Golden Core cultivator, and he planned to refine the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s avatar into a Glass Primordial Spirit.
• An undercover agent reported that Li Xi, the Dan Peak peak master’s granddaughter, was suspected of possessing the Longevity Physique, and the Myriad Desire Demon Lord urged Jiang Li to bring her to the Ten Thousand Demons Sect.
• Jiang Li summoned the eight outer sect undercover agents to Yuan Li’s field hut at Spirit Plant Peak, where Sun Yang recognized him and revealed his identity to the others.
• After confirming that only Sun Yang knew about Li Xi’s suspected physique, Jiang Li attacked the eight agents with seven-colored rainbow light and collapsed the hut.
• Sun Yang survived briefly with a Spirit Recovery Pill and publicly declared that Jiang Li was the Ten Thousand Demons Sect’s Undercover Contact Person.

Jiang Li’s reputation protected him from Sun Yang’s accusations and earned him the Law Enforcement Hall’s support as an Inspector and potential Holy Son candidate. While refining the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s divine consciousness, he followed the Spirit Controlling Art’s directions toward an ownerless remnant thought and encountered Huo Wu, who invited him to Purple Flame True Person’s tomb.

• Sun Yang accused Jiang Li of being an undercover agent, but Spirit Plant Peak disciples dismissed the claim and celebrated Jiang Li for exposing the infiltrators.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture grew stronger, and Jiang Li opened his second meridian.
• Cui Yan appointed Jiang Li as an Inspector and told him the Law Enforcement Hall would support his bid to become Holy Son.
• Zhang Song discussed Jiang Li’s chances and left to inquire about access to the Fifth-Order Sword in the Sword Tomb.
• Jiang Li continued tempering the Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s divine sense, then followed the Spirit Controlling Art’s guidance toward Qing Province.
• Jiang Li met Huo Wu aboard a Flying Skiff, learned she was heading to Purple Flame True Person’s tomb, and accepted her invitation to travel together.

Jiang Li reached Purple Flame True Person’s tomb, where the Emperor’s World-Shocking Art took over and led him to break into the burial chamber ahead of the waiting cultivators. After refusing the chamber’s treasures, Jiang Li was recognized by Purple Flame True Person’s phantom as his chosen heir.

• Huo Wu explained that Purple Flame True Person’s tomb had appeared in Pingjiang City and that cultivators were waiting outside, wary of its traps.
• At the crowded tomb, the Emperor’s World-Shocking Art took control of Jiang Li and made the cultivators part to let him lead the way.
• Jiang Li punched through the tomb’s weakest formation point and entered the main burial chamber without using the front entrance.
• The Emperor’s World-Shocking Art dismissed all six treasures in the chamber, despite Jiang Li urging it to take them.
• Purple Flame True Person’s phantom appeared from the coffin and declared Jiang Li his chosen heir, offering him everything in the tomb.