Chapter Summaries

Jiang Li rejected Purple Flame True Person’s supposed inheritance, only to discover that the Golden Core cultivator planned to possess Gong Fan and turn the tomb’s visitors into a Blood Infant. Jiang Li’s Spirit Controlling Art seized and refined Purple Flame True Person’s Spirit Fetus, expanding his Spiritual Sense to Golden Core strength and making Purple Flame his obedient servant.

• Jiang Li refused Purple Flame True Person’s inheritance, and Gong Fan volunteered to become the heir instead.
• Purple Flame True Person possessed Gong Fan, sealed the burial chamber, and revealed his plan to use the cultivators’ flesh and blood to create a Blood Infant.
• Jiang Li’s Spirit Controlling Art drew Purple Flame True Person’s Spirit Fetus away from Gong Fan and imprisoned it in Jiang Li’s Sea of Consciousness.
• After two days of tempering the Spirit Fetus, Jiang Li’s Spiritual Sense expanded to three thousand meters and reached Golden Core strength.
• Purple Flame True Person’s refined Spiritual Sense acknowledged Jiang Li as its master and offered to support his cultivation and Spiritual Sense combat.

After waking in Purple Flame True Person’s tomb, Jiang Li defeated the cultivators who challenged his claim to the treasures and seized everything, including the Purple Yang Fire and the Divine Fire True Understanding. He left for the rear hall with the others subdued, while Purple Flame True Person explained how the secret art could help him cultivate the spirit flame.

• Jiang Li woke on the altar and learned that the cultivators suspected he had been possessed, while Huo Wu defended his right to the tomb’s treasures.
• Jiang Li declared that he wanted everything, then knocked away a Foundation Establishment Peak cultivator and wounded a Golden Core senior with lightning.
• Jiang Li used the Three Powers Sword Formation to defeat two Mid Golden Core cultivators and force them to abandon their claim to the Purple Yang Fire.
• Jiang Li claimed the tomb’s treasures, including the manual Divine Fire True Understanding, and headed to the rear hall with Huo Wu and Uncle Chen.
• Purple Flame True Person explained that Divine Fire True Understanding could fuse flames and help Jiang Li subdue the Purple Yang Fire.

Jiang Li used Divine Fire True Understanding to subdue and restore Purple Yang Fire, drawing flames from cultivators throughout Purple Flame True Person’s tomb. After leaving the tomb and returning to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land, he learned that Murong Qing needed real combat practice against visiting disciples from Pure Yang Palace.

• Purple Flame True Person taught Jiang Li how to cultivate Divine Fire True Understanding and refine Purple Yang Fire.
• Jiang Li activated the secret art, which summoned ordinary and spiritual flames from cultivators across the tomb and used them to restore Purple Yang Fire.
• Jiang Li subdued Purple Yang Fire, gained control of the peak third-rank spiritual flame, and resolved to grow strong enough to kill Deacon Qin.
• Jiang Li left the tomb with Huo Wu and Uncle Chen, while the survivors’ account made him famous throughout Qing Province.
• Back at the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land, Murong Qing told Jiang Li that disciples from Pure Yang Palace had arrived to spar and that she needed actual combat practice.

Jiang Li mastered Sword Light before the Dao discussion sparring event, then arrived at the platform as Zhang Song prepared to wager with Pure Yang Palace’s Che Yufei. The chapter ended with both instructors agreeing to stake spirit fire on which disciple could achieve the longer winning streak.

• Jiang Li returned from Qing Province and told Zhang Song about his gains, prompting Zhang Song to explain that Pure Yang Palace’s spirit flames could help advance Purple Yang Fire.
• Zhang Song ordered Jiang Li to compete against Pure Yang Palace’s Foundation Establishment disciples and promised spirit flames, as well as a chance to wield a Fifth-Order Sword, if Jiang Li performed well.
• Jiang Li studied Sword Rainbow Dividing Light and condensed Sword Light for the first time, shocking the Myriad Desire Demon Lord in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Three days later, Zhang Song brought Jiang Li to the Dao Discussion Platform, where Che Yufei arrived with Pure Yang Palace’s disciples and introduced his disciple Sima Ruhong.
• Che Yufei proposed a wager on which disciple would achieve the longer winning streak, and Zhang Song agreed to stake spirit fire of equivalent value.

Jiang Li entered the Dao discussion sparring and, under the Emperor's World-Shocking Art's Instant Emperor Mode, defeated seventy Pure Yang Palace disciples with overwhelming physical strength. As the technique prepared to challenge the strongest, Sima Ruhong stepped forward to end Jiang Li's streak, and Jiang Li took control to fight at full strength.

• Jiang Li learned that his cultivation techniques had activated for the sparring, including Instant Emperor Mode, which increased Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi condensation for every opponent he defeated.
• Jiang Li went straight onto the Dao Discussion Platform and mocked Pure Yang Palace after Che Yufei questioned his lack of patience.
• Jiang Li defeated challenger after challenger with single punches, including a Foundation Establishment Peak disciple whose defenses temporarily reached Golden Core level.
• After Jiang Li won seventy consecutive matches, the Emperor's World-Shocking Art announced that Heavenly Mandate Emperor Appearance was about to be conceived.
• Sima Ruhong vowed to end Jiang Li's winning streak, and Jiang Li took over from the Body Refinement Method to bring out his full strength.

Jiang Li defeated Sima Ruhong after crushing seventy-one Pure Yang Palace disciples in succession, revealing strength that could reshape the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land’s factions. After leaving Lakeheart Island, he spotted a Pure Yang Palace guest marked as a demon possessed of a demonic heart, while Bai Hong arrived and learned what had happened.

• Jiang Li used lightning arts, speed, and the Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword to defeat Sima Ruhong, who admitted his loss after Che Yufei explained Jiang Li’s Sword Rainbow had severed his three fire serpents.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Land disciples celebrated Jiang Li’s sweeping victory, while Golden Core True Disciples worried that he could disrupt the balance among the Holy Son Candidate factions.
• Jiang Li left Lakeheart Island and spotted a refined young gentleman among Pure Yang Palace’s group with black markings identifying him as a demon possessed of a demonic heart.
• The refined young gentleman praised Jiang Li’s movement technique, but Bai Hong declined to explain more and led the Pure Yang Palace group to Lakeheart Island.
• Bai Hong asked why the Dao discussion had ended, and Zhang Song explained that Jiang Li had defeated seventy-one Pure Yang Palace disciples and left them unwilling to continue.

After Jiang Li defeated Pure Yang Palace disciples and exposed a demon among their delegation, Zhang Song secured spirit flames and a fire technique as the wager. Jiang Li celebrated with Murong Qing and Li Xi, then discovered that Divine Fire True Understanding wanted to absorb the Primal Fire Art into its lineage.

• A Pure Yang Palace elder challenged Zhang Song's account, but Che Yufei confirmed that Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Jiang Li had defeated Sima Ruhong with his sword and wind comprehension.
• Zhang Song reminded Che Yufei of the wager, and Che collected spirit flames and a cultivation technique to make up the promised value.
• Jiang Li sensed that a high-ranking Pure Yang Palace elder was a Golden Core peak demon, then met Murong Qing and Li Xi on his way back.
• Li Xi treated Jiang Li and Murong Qing to Bodhi flower tea, and Jiang Li gave Murong Qing a Flying Sword Hairpin containing three rays of sword light.
• Zhang Song warned Jiang Li that his victory had drawn the attention of Holy Son Candidates and gave him sixty-six portions of spirit flame and the Primal Fire Art.
• After reading the Primal Fire Art, Jiang Li received a Divine Fire True Understanding notification asking him to bring the fire technique's collateral lineage back into the main family.

Jiang Li unlocked Primal Divine Fire True Understanding and used it to advance Purple Yang Fire into the Fourth-Order Emperor Flame, accidentally burning every Cave Residence on Heaven Sword Peak’s third level. As he began cultivating with Emperor Flame inside his body, the system declared that he needed more pressure to overcome an obstruction.

• Jiang Li gained Primal Divine Fire True Understanding after accepting Divine Fire True Understanding’s return to its main bloodline.
• Jiang Li warned Zhang Song that Qin Mingyang, a Pure Yang Palace Hall Master overseeing repairs to the Nine Yang Blaze Formation, was a demon; Zhang Song left to inform the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Jiang Li activated his Cultivation Technique Growth Plan and used sixty-six spirit fires to advance Purple Yang Fire into Fourth-Order Emperor Flame.
• Emperor Flame melted Jiang Li’s Cave Residence formations and spread across the third level, forcing the disciples to evacuate while the Elders chose not to interrupt his cultivation.
• Jiang Li’s hosted cultivation began using his body as a fireseed, but the system found his progress sluggish and said he needed pressure.

Jiang Li’s hosted cultivation technique brought him into the Demon Imprisonment Cave, where the prisoners’ threats pushed it to Beginner. He regained control with mastery of Emperor Flame and the Firefly Star Finger, then blasted apart a prisoner’s shoulder.

• Jiang Li left Heaven Sword Peak after the elders reassured him they would handle the damage caused during his cultivation.
• The technique brought Jiang Li to the Demon Imprisonment Cave, where Zhang Song and Bai Hong let him join their descent into the prison.
• Jiang Li reached the second level and found Nascent Soul Realm prisoners confined in cells.
• The prisoners threatened Jiang Li and begged him for release, driving Primal Divine Fire True Understanding to Beginner.
• Jiang Li regained control, mastered Emperor Flame and the Firefly Star Finger, and blasted apart the white-haired old man’s left shoulder.

Jiang Li used lightning to punish the demonic cultivators imprisoned on the second level of the Abyss Prison, increasing his Lightning Qi and forcing several to repent. When Thousand Souls Demonic Sect members possessing Pure Yang Palace elders arrived to free prisoners, Jiang Li revealed his strength and cut down two of them.

• Jiang Li shocked Old Freak Heavenly Hatred until he submitted, and his Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture gained Lightning Qi progress.
• Jiang Li taunted Lord Demon Flame, shocked him into apologizing, and continued punishing the demonic cultivators across the prison level.
• An explosion revealed three possessed Pure Yang Palace elders, whose black markers exposed their demonic corruption and whose arrival stirred the prisoners’ hopes of escape.
• The possessors identified themselves as Thousand Souls Demonic Sect Venerables, and one of them, Celestial Killing Supreme, tried to recruit Jiang Li while another went to free Lord Demon Flame.
• Jiang Li unleashed crystalline sword light that severed Celestial Killing Supreme and Soul Eater Supreme at the waist.

Jiang Li used Sword Rainbow Dividing Light and relentless attacks to defeat the three Thousand Souls Demonic Sect Nascent Soul Venerables, including suppressing Netherworld Supreme in his Sea of Consciousness. After his cultivation technique restored and strengthened his Mana, Jiang Li carried the three corpses toward the first explosion site.

• Jiang Li revealed Sword Rainbow Dividing Light and cut two Mid Golden Core cultivators in half, prompting Netherworld Supreme to target him.
• Jiang Li bombarded Netherworld Supreme's possessed body with Fluorescent Star Finger, then admitted he would not fight him head-on.
• Netherworld Supreme abandoned his possessed body and entered Jiang Li's Sea of Consciousness, where Purple Flame True Person seized him and cast him into the Sun Moon Divine Furnace.
• Jiang Li emerged unharmed after Netherworld Supreme was suppressed, and Lord Demon Flame shut his prison door when Jiang Li looked his way.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture restored Jiang Li's Mana and opened his sixth meridian, after which he carried the three corpses toward the first explosion site.

Jiang Li killed three Demonic Path cultivators who had possessed borrowed bodies, but Qin Mingyang revealed himself as an incarnation of the Spirit Transformation Blood Hell True Lord and escaped the Demon Imprisonment Cave. The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture and Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword lent Jiang Li their power, allowing him to strike down Qin Mingyang’s incarnation as it fled.

• Jiang Li returned with the corpses of Tian Sha, Soul Eater, and Nether, and told the elders that he had killed them before they could release the prisoners.
• Qin Mingyang broke the Demon Imprisonment Formation, revealed himself as Blood Hell True Lord, and surged to Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Zhang Song and Bai Hong attacked Qin Mingyang, but he used the Formation-Breaking Awl to escape through the formations.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture lent the Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword the power of a Nascent Soul strike, while the sword art gained a Dragon Slaying damage boost.
• Jiang Li’s sword cleaved Qin Mingyang’s incarnation in two, and the sword art and cultivation method gained progress.

Jiang Li revealed his Sword-Light River of Stars and earned support to become a Holy Son Candidate before advancing to Foundation Establishment Late Stage. The Emperor's World-Shocking Art then turned his trip to inspect the Human Emperor Palace into a spectacular entrance, awakening a new Heavenly Mandate Emperor Appearance attribute.

• Jiang Li admitted that he had comprehended sword light, and Bai Hong promised the Law Enforcement Hall's support for him to obtain a Fifth-Order Sword.
• Heavenly Mystery Holy Land's Profound Peak masters learned that Jiang Li had slain Blood Hell True Lord's incarnation, and Murong Wanhe took him to the Heavenly Thunder Mountain Range.
• Jiang Li used the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture to connect his final meridian, reach Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and increase his Mana and Spiritual Sense.
• After learning that the Human Emperor Palace was complete, Jiang Li set out to inspect it, but the Emperor's World-Shocking Art and Carefree Wind-Riding Art activated Bonding Mode and gave him a grand qilin-and-dragon entrance.
• Jiang Li's arrival at the Human Emperor Palace drew the admiration of gathered disciples, and the Emperor's World-Shocking Art conceived the Heavenly Mandate Emperor Appearance attribute.

Jiang Li built the Human Emperor Palace, which began generating Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi, and learned that several factions might support his future Holy Son bid. As he cultivated there, two women from Flying Flower Valley arrived to petition him to deal with a demon calamity in Jiangzhou.

• Jiang Li discovered that the Human Emperor Palace could generate one portion of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi each day, and Li Xi and Murong Qing visited him there.
• Murong Qing explained the Holy Son requirements, while Li Xi said Dan Peak would support Jiang Li if he chose to compete.
• Jiang Li and the two women discussed cultivation and spent the night at the Human Emperor Palace, prompting rumors among the disciples.
• Jiang Li cultivated the Prosperous Golden Body until his physical strength reached the Late-Stage Golden Core level, but ran short of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi.
• A Heaven Sword Peak disciple told Jiang Li that two Flying Flower Valley cultivators were requesting his help against a demon calamity in Jiangzhou.

Jiang Li rushed to Jiangzhou after learning that demon clans were hunting and killing its people, and the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture swore to destroy them all. He reached Dingbang City and confronted a Golden Core-level lion demon threatening worshippers, with the chapter ending as the Scripture declared that he would act as their god.

• Jiang Li agreed to help Flying Flower Valley after Qiu Ya and Xia He told him that two demon clans had invaded Jiangzhou.
• Qiu Ya and Xia He explained that the Golden-Eyed Lion and Golden Winged Ferocious Tiger clans were hunting people to avenge their clansmen, and had already killed many civilians.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture swore an Oath of Justice to kill every demon beast wreaking havoc in Jiangzhou, and Jiang Li let it take control of his body.
• Jiang Li carried the flying Spirit Boat as he transformed into lightning and raced toward Jiangzhou.
• At Dingbang City's incense temple, a third-rank lion demon threatened the worshippers and Demon Suppression Division captains, but Jiang Li descended behind it and asked if it had been looking for him.

Jiang Li’s hosted cultivation technique drew the demons away from the civilians in Dingbang City by making him appear to be a sacred medicine. The demons converged on him outside the city, where the Golden Winged Tiger King prepared to fight.

• Jiang Li’s lightning struck down a lion demon at the temple, and the surviving civilians and Demon Suppression Division captains mistook him for an immortal master from Divine Fire Mountain.
• After learning civilians were sheltering at Divine Flame Mountain Manor while others remained trapped in the city, Jiang Li’s Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture chose to lure the demons away by using him as bait.
• Jiang Li released his Enlightenment Foundation Establishment aura and summoned Purple Extreme Lightning, drawing demons away from Flying Flower Valley and Divine Fire Mountain as well as from the city’s civilians.
• The cultivation technique led Jiang Li outside Dingbang City and waited for the demons, while Jiang Li feared it might force him into another battle and debt.
• The Golden Winged Tiger King and nine other Foundation Establishment demons reached Jiang Li, and the Tiger King declared it would consume him to advance to the Nascent Soul realm.

Jiang Li defeated the Golden Winged Tiger King and the Golden Eyed Lion King after their forces attacked him outside Dingbang City. When Flying Flower Valley and the Demon Suppression Division arrived to help, they found the battlefield already covered in demon corpses and Jiang Li standing victorious.

• Jiang Li’s lightning attacks scattered the tiger demons, then struck the Golden Winged Tiger King and a Golden Core tiger demon as the Tiger King tried to escape.
• Jiang Li used Skyburner to sever the wounded Tiger King and cut down the lion demons arriving with the Golden Eyed Lion King.
• Jiang Li evaded the Lion King’s attacks, severed its limbs, and killed it with a final sword strike.
• Qiu Ya told Vanguard General Lu Dali that the Immortal Master had drawn the demons away from Dingbang City to buy the city time.
• Lu Dali led the Demon Suppression Division and Flying Flower Valley out of the city, where they found Jiang Li beside the Lion King’s severed head.

Jiang Li defeated the demon calamity in Jiangzhou, advanced his Sword Dao, and became the province’s guardian deity as the people built incense temples to him. He left a Purple Lightning Sword Light inside a statue to protect Jiangzhou from future threats.

• Jiang Li’s victory over the two Late-Stage Golden Core demon beasts earned him a cultivation breakthrough and heavenly blessed light, through which he comprehended Sword Light Duplication.
• Jiang Li accepted the Flying Flower Valley Master’s invitation and secluded himself at Flying Flower Valley, increasing the number of sword lights he could control.
• Qiu Ya and Xia He told Jiang Li that his reputation had spread across Jiangzhou and that the people had built incense temples dedicated to him.
• Jiang Li visited an incense temple in Dingbang City, where the people recognized him and their devotion gathered one hundred portions of Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi.
• The Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture and the Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword created a Purple Lightning Sword Light, which Jiang Li placed inside the statue to answer future calamities in Jiangzhou.

Jiang Li learned that the Golden Winged Ferocious Tigers had come to human territory to seek entry to the Beast God Secret Realm, then returned to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land and prepared to compete to become the Sword Bearer of the Fifth-Order Limitless Sword. After advancing his Emperor's World-Shocking Art to major mastery and discovering a new Dragon Vein beneath his palace, he faced the coming sword selection with greater strength and confidence.

• Jiang Li received intelligence from Lu Dali about the Beast God Secret Realm and acquired a fragment of the Beast God Seven Kill divine ability.
• Jiang Li returned to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land and learned he could compete for recognition by the Fifth-Order Limitless Sword.
• Jiang Li spent twenty-eight days cultivating with Imperial Dynasty Dragon Qi and advanced the Emperor's World-Shocking Art to major mastery, greatly strengthening his body.
• Jiang Li discovered that his palace's Heavenly Mandate Emperor Appearance trait had created a Dragon Vein beneath the Human Emperor Palace.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Land announced the selection of a Sword Bearer for the unsealed Limitless Sword, and Jiang Li declared his intent to claim it.

Jiang Li entered the Sword Tomb to compete for the Fifth-Order Limitless Sword against Elder Zhu, Qin Wudao, and Hai Wuya. After the swords in the tomb swarmed toward his Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword, he revealed a new sword-light technique that stunned the spectators.

• Jiang Li learned that Hai Wuya, Qin Wudao, and Elder Zhu were his strongest rivals for the Limitless Sword, though he believed he still had a chance.
• Jiang Li entered the Sword Tomb, where fourth-order and third-order swords crowded around him after the Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword began releasing its Sword Dao aura.
• Jiang Li reached the selection arena with the other contenders and learned that each must strike the Limitless Sword with their strongest Sword Dao foundation.
• Elder Zhu, Qin Wudao, and Hai Wuya demonstrated their sword-light abilities before Jiang Li formed seven segments of sword light and struck the stone sword with them.
• The Heaven Sword Peak Master asked Jiang Li what he called the unprecedented technique, and Jiang Li named it Sword Light Duplication.