Chapter Summaries

Jiang Li’s breakthrough in Sword Dao and his cultivation techniques’ coercive “deep exchange” persuaded the Fifth-Order Limitless Sword to choose him as its Sword Bearer. After three days of uncertainty, the sword flew to Jiang Li, stunning the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land.

• Jiang Li’s Sword Light Duplication shocked the gathered Sword Cultivators, who recognized him as a pioneer of Sword Dao.
• The unsealed Limitless Sword interviewed Elder Zhu, Qin Wudao, Hai Wuya, and Jiang Li before testing Jiang Li’s low cultivation and Sword Dao talent.
• Jiang Li’s automated Profound Heaven Dragon Slaying Sword seized the Limitless Sword’s spirit, then summoned his other cultivation techniques to bully it in a prolonged deep exchange.
• Afterward, the Limitless Sword’s spirit chose Jiang Li, citing his exceptional Sword Dao talent and its agreement with the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture’s ideals.
• The Limitless Sword flew around the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land before returning to Jiang Li, who took its hilt as the surrounding disciples watched in astonishment.

Jiang Li won the Limitless Sword’s recognition, learned to wield some of its power, and gained a hidden scout in Netherworld Supreme. As Jiang Li’s undercover target, Deacon Qin planned to seize the sword, but Netherworld Supreme discovered his scheme and reported it.

• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Land learned that the Foundation Establishment cultivator Jiang Li had gained the Limitless Sword’s recognition, shocking Qin Wudao and deepening Hai Wuya’s despair.
• Jiang Li told Zhang Song he had pioneered Sword Light Duplication, then later used Cultivation Technique Hosting to foster a connection with the Limitless Sword and attain basic unity of man and sword.
• The Limitless Sword revealed its powerful abilities to Jiang Li, while Netherworld Supreme completed his tempering and became an undetectable scout under Jiang Li’s control.
• Jiang Li sent Netherworld Supreme to monitor Deacon Qin and warned the Myriad Desire Demon Lord that their paths had diverged.
• Deacon Qin emerged from seclusion, learned Jiang Li had obtained the Fifth-Order Sword, and planned with his superior to lure Jiang Li out and steal it.
• Netherworld Supreme overheard Deacon Qin’s plan and reported that he intended to move against Jiang Li.

Jiang Li learned that Qin Liang planned to ambush him for the Limitless Sword, then helped Murong Qing break through her cultivation bottleneck by holding her hand. He tracked Qin Liang to Frostfeather City and began overpowering him, leaving the undercover agent pinned against a wall.

• Netherworld Supreme told Jiang Li that Qin Liang and Blood Fiend Supreme planned to lure him away, trap him, and steal the Limitless Sword.
• Murong Qing brought Jiang Li clear wine and explained that emotional changes around him helped her cultivate the Supreme Profound Mystery Canon.
• Jiang Li held Murong Qing's hand, triggering her cultivation breakthrough and revealing her Exquisite Pure Body.
• Netherworld Supreme reported that Qin Liang had left the Holy Land to meet Blood Fiend Supreme, so Jiang Li followed him to Frostfeather City.
• Jiang Li confronted Qin Liang on Changping Street, revealed that he had come to kill him, and slammed him into the paving stones before pinning him against a wall.

Jiang Li killed the Ten Thousand Demons Sect infiltrators Qin Liang and Blood Fiend Supreme, and the Spirit Controlling Art transformed his Sea of Consciousness into a nine-layer prison for refining Spiritual Sense. After meeting Holy Son Candidate Lei Shan, Jiang Li was summoned to help the Pure Yang Palace expose infiltrators from the Thousand Souls Demonic Sect.

• Jiang Li killed Qin Liang and imprisoned his Spiritual Sense in the Sea of Consciousness, where it was thrown into the Sun Moon Divine Furnace.
• Jiang Li ambushed Blood Fiend Supreme in Frostfeather City, killed his body, and captured his Nascent Soul.
• The Spirit Controlling Art transformed Jiang Li’s Sea of Consciousness into the Ninefold Prison Suppression, where Blood Fiend Supreme’s Nascent Soul was tortured and refined to strengthen Jiang Li’s Spiritual Sense.
• Jiang Li resumed cultivation in the Thunder Pool Chamber and met Lei Shan, a Holy Son Candidate who warned him about the Inner Sect Grand Competition and offered friendship.
• At the Sect Master’s Grand Hall, Pure Yang Palace Elder Che Yufei asked Jiang Li to help uncover Thousand Souls Demonic Sect infiltrators in the Pure Yang Palace.

Jiang Li agreed to help Pure Yang Palace uncover its demonic infiltrators in exchange for a Fourth-Order Spirit Fire, and the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land promised him Heavenly Killing Qi and support. He arrived at Pure Yang Palace with an exchange party, where an upcoming gathering of disciples threatened to trigger his cultivation method’s demonic patrol response.

• Jiang Li accepted Che Yufei’s request to investigate demonic cultivators in Pure Yang Palace, and the Heavenly Mystery Holy Master arranged an exchange party to accompany him.
• Zhang Song, Cui Yan, Gao Lan, and Murong Wanhe offered Jiang Li protection, a life-saving pill, and support for the operation.
• Jiang Li refused Li Xi and Murong Qing’s requests to join him, then questioned Netherworld Supreme about the Thousand Souls Demonic Sect’s infiltration of Pure Yang Palace.
• Netherworld Supreme said seven Golden Core Realm infiltrators remained in hiding and that Blood Hell True Lord was the highest-ranking one he knew of.
• Jiang Li’s exchange party arrived at Pure Yang Palace, where Che Yufei arranged a gathering of disciples to help him screen for infiltrators.
• As the gathering approached, lightning began surging around Jiang Li as the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture entered Patrol Mode.

Jiang Li arrived at Pure Yang Palace with the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land delegation, where the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture activated Patrol Mode and exposed hidden demonic cultivators. As the technique continued striking sinners throughout the sect, Jiang Li and Che Yufei faced growing hostility from Pure Yang Palace’s disciples.

• Jiang Li saw a large gathering of red-marked demonic cultivators at Pure Yang Palace, and the Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture activated Patrol Mode.
• Jiang Li unleashed lightning on the disciples gathered at the gates, striking Jin Yang and more than a hundred others before declaring that demonic cultivators deserved to die.
• Netherworld Supreme identified Jin Yang as controlled by Shadowfiend Supreme, and Jiang Li’s lightning struck hidden demonic cultivators across the gathering while his Lightning Qi advanced.
• Che Yufei stopped the confrontation, and Jiang Li told him that the fallen disciples were demonic cultivators; Che Yufei arranged for trusted elders to take them into custody.
• Che Yufei led the visitors through Pure Yang Palace, where Jiang Li’s technique continued striking suspected sinners, provoking more disciples and prompting Murong Wanhe to warn him about the danger.
• By the twentieth hall, Pure Yang Palace disciples had surrounded Jiang Li in anger, and the Primal Divine Fire True Understanding incantation called for greater pressure as another bolt of lightning burst from him.

Jiang Li’s Qi Refining Method summoned heavenly tribulation lightning to expose and kill hidden Thousand Souls Demonic Sect members throughout Pure Yang Palace. The purge revealed his ability to identify demonic cultivators, drew the sect’s attention, and advanced his cultivation to Foundation Establishment Peak, leaving him exposed to greater danger.

• Jiang Li fought off Beacon Fire Hall disciples who attacked him, and his cultivation technique escalated the clash by summoning Three-Colored Tribulation Lightning.
• Jiang Li struck three hidden Thousand Souls Demonic Sect members dead with tribulation lightning, and Che Yufei told the hall that the Pure Yang Palace leadership had ordered the purge.
• Beacon Fire Hall disciples recognized the demonic arts on the corpses and realized Jiang Li had come to help them, but he had already flown off to strike hidden demonic cultivators in other halls.
• Jiang Li’s lightning purge exposed his ability to identify demonic cultivators to Pure Yang Palace and the Thousand Souls Demonic Sect.
• Jiang Li advanced from Foundation Establishment Late Stage to Foundation Establishment Peak as the Qi Refining Method continued its demon-cleansing rampage.

Jiang Li’s system-driven purge of Thousand Souls Demonic Sect operatives at Pure Yang Palace ended with him trapping Wuxu Supreme in his Sea of Consciousness and earning the sect’s gratitude. After reaching Foundation Establishment Peak, he learned that Lei Shan had already used the Ten Directions Thunder Prison Demon-Slaying Heart Scripture to form a special Golden Core, cutting off that path for him.

• Jiang Li’s Supreme Divine Thunder Induction Scripture broke through during the purge, but Wuxu Supreme ambushed him with a Spiritual Sense attack.
• Jiang Li’s tribulation lightning overcame Wuxu Supreme’s mist body, and Wuxu entered Jiang Li’s Sea of Consciousness, where he was trapped alongside other demonic spirits.
• The cultivation technique completed its second-stage duty, condensed Jiang Li’s Flawless Dao Heart, and ended its hosting after killing at least two hundred Thousand Souls Demonic Sect operatives.
• Murong Wanhe and Che Yufei checked on Jiang Li, and Pure Yang Palace’s disciples apologized to him before the group was given quarters beside the Sun Blaze Fire Pool.
• Murong Wanhe warned Jiang Li about the danger of provoking the demonic sect, then advised him on preparing to condense a special Golden Core.
• Murong Wanhe revealed that Lei Shan had already used the Ten Directions Thunder Prison Demon-Slaying Heart Scripture to condense a special Golden Core, leaving Jiang Li unable to follow that same path.

Jiang Li refused the Pure Yang Palace Master's offer to become his personal disciple and returned to his quarters while a suspected Thousand Souls Demonic Sect True Lord stalked him. He stayed on guard as his Primal Divine Fire True Understanding cultivation art gained progress from its growing paranoia.

• The Pure Yang Palace Master offered Jiang Li a personal discipleship and new cultivation methods, arguing that Heavenly Mystery Holy Land had left his Golden Core prospects constrained.
• Jiang Li refused to leave Heavenly Mystery Holy Land, and the Pure Yang Palace Master ordered Che Yufei to give him the promised Fourth-Order Spirit Fire and preserve their relationship.
• Murong Wanhe told Jiang Li that a powerful Spirit Transformation cultivator, likely a Thousand Souls Demonic Sect remnant, had been following him, so he agreed to stay under protection until they could leave.
• Jiang Li returned to his room, where the system reported that the Primal Divine Fire True Understanding gained doubled cultivation progress from feeling watched and threatened.

Jiang Li’s technique, Primal Divine Fire True Understanding, took control of his body and attacked Cold Flame Supreme, exposing him as a Thousand Souls Demonic Sect infiltrator. Under Cold Flame Supreme’s pressure, the technique broke through to minor mastery, and Jiang Li destroyed both his body and Nascent Soul before learning that the sect was testing Pure Yang Palace’s defenses.

• Primal Divine Fire True Understanding took control of Jiang Li and led him into the Heavenly Flame Pavilion, where it accused Cold Flame Supreme of being a demon and attacked him.
• Che Yufei vouched for Jiang Li’s judgment while the elders watched him bombard Cold Flame Supreme with Fluorescent Star Finger.
• Cold Flame Supreme counterattacked with Ice-Fire Palm, prompting the technique to open Jiang Li’s last two extraordinary meridians and reach minor mastery with Flame Body Forging.
• Jiang Li’s flame body endured the palm, and Sun Eclipse Eye ignited Cold Flame Supreme, revealing him as a Thousand Souls Demonic Sect infiltrator when his Nascent Soul fled.
• Jiang Li burned Cold Flame Supreme’s Nascent Soul with another technique, then heard it reveal that Blood Hell True Lord believed Pure Yang Palace lacked cultivators above the Spirit Transformation Stage.

After Jiang Li received a Fourth-Order Spirit Fire and left Pure Yang Palace with Murong Wanhe, she explained that the Ten Immortal Sects guarded the Human Realm against the Demon Realm. Blood Hell True Lord and Profound Yin True Lord ambushed their flying Spirit Boat, but Jiang Li’s Heavenly Mystery Holy Land backers arrived, and he ordered them to kill.

• Che Yufei praised Jiang Li’s handling of Cold Flame Supreme and gave him the Life Spirit Fire and a Pure Yang Palace Road Token.
• Jiang Li and Murong Wanhe departed Pure Yang Palace, and she warned him that the Thousand Souls Demonic Sect might attack on their journey.
• Murong Wanhe told Jiang Li that the Ten Immortal Sects had descended from the Spirit Realm to guard the Human Realm against the Demon Realm.
• Blood Hell True Lord and Profound Yin True Lord ambushed the flying Spirit Boat with demonic cultivators, seeking Jiang Li.
• Jiang Li summoned the Heaven Sword Peak Master and Law Enforcement Hall Master, who arrived to protect him.
• When Jiang Li asked whether they could kill both Spirit Transformation cultivators, the Heaven Sword Peak Master and Law Enforcement Hall Master said they could keep one, and Jiang Li ordered them to kill.

Jiang Li’s side defeated the Thousand Souls Demonic Sect’s ambush after he learned to form fire- and thunder-attribute Sword Light and helped slaughter the enemy cultivators. In his Sea of Consciousness, Myriad Desire Demon Lord offered to teach him the powerful Spiritual Sense attack method Trouble-Quelling Art.

• The Thousand Souls Demonic Sect’s cultivators tried to flee when Blood Hell True Lord abandoned Profound Yin True Lord, but the Heaven Sword Peak Master and Crimson Bear True Lord trapped them and fought Profound Yin.
• As the Heaven Sword Peak Master explained Sword Fiend, Jiang Li’s Sword Art entered an Enlightenment State and formed Purple Radiance Sword Light and Divine Firmament Sword Light.
• Jiang Li tested the new Sword Lights in battle, killing Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators alongside Murong Wanhe.
• Jiang Li and the two Spirit Transformation cultivators wiped out the Thousand Souls Demonic Sect’s forces, and the Heaven Sword Peak Master and Crimson Bear True Lord killed Profound Yin True Lord.
• Jiang Li captured the defeated cultivators’ Spiritual Sense and sent it to the Ninefold Prison Suppression to strengthen his own Spiritual Sense.
• Myriad Desire Demon Lord offered to teach Jiang Li the Trouble-Quelling Art, a Spiritual Sense sword technique that could kill enemies across realms.

Jiang Li received the flawed Trouble-Quelling Art from Myriad Desire Demon Lord, then evolved his Spirit Controlling Art into the Spirit Controlling Thought Severing Art. He forged a black-gold Sword Embryo from captured demonic cultivators’ Spiritual Sense and discovered that the method could produce multiple sword embryos, before the art revealed a new path toward a Myriad Weapons, Myriad Formations Diagram.

• Myriad Desire Demon Lord gave Jiang Li the Trouble-Quelling Art in exchange for relief from the pain of refinement.
• Jiang Li examined the scripture, and his system exposed flaws that could damage his Primordial Spirit and let Myriad Desire Demon Lord exploit the Sword Embryo.
• Jiang Li allowed his Spirit Controlling Art to absorb the Trouble-Quelling Art and evolve into the Spirit Controlling Thought Severing Art.
• Jiang Li used captured demonic cultivators’ Spiritual Sense as material, repeatedly forging it in the Sword Prison within his Sea of Consciousness.
• After half a day, Jiang Li combined ten pieces of Spiritual Sense meteoric iron into a powerful black-gold Sword Embryo and realized he could forge many more.
• The Spirit Controlling Thought Severing Art produced new insights, proposing that Spiritual Sense could be forged into divine weapons and arranged as a Myriad Weapons, Myriad Formations Diagram.

Jiang Li reported his accomplishments at Pure Yang Palace to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land and secured a promise of Heavenly Killing Qi after claiming he could comprehend Sword Fiends within half a year. Back at Human Emperor Palace, he heard about Murong Qing and Li Xi’s Inner Sect Grand Competition results, then faced a challenge from Zhao Qingxuan, the Inner Sect’s undefeated Foundation Establishment champion.

• Jiang Li returned to the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land and reported how he had defeated Pure Yang Palace’s demonic threat, while Murong Wanhe filled in the details for the astonished leaders.
• The Heavenly Mystery Holy Master offered Jiang Li a reward, and Jiang Li requested Heavenly Killing Qi for lightning and fire sword light.
• Jiang Li said he could comprehend the Fifth Realm of Sword Dao within half a year, prompting the Holy Master to promise support and set the goal.
• Jiang Li returned to Human Emperor Palace, where Murong Qing described placing fifth in the Inner Sect Grand Competition and Li Xi proudly shared her defensive fighting style and top-twenty finish.
• Zhao Qingxuan arrived at Human Emperor Palace and challenged Jiang Li to prove who deserved first place in the Inner Sect.

Jiang Li let the Emperor's World-Shocking Art take control and faced Zhao Qingxuan in a challenge to determine the Inner Sect's strongest. As their fight continued, Zhao Qingxuan's Martial Wills began to fuse under his overwhelming pressure, bringing her closer to condensing a special Golden Core.

• Jiang Li activated the Emperor's World-Shocking Art and flew to the Dao Discussion Platform, with Zhao Qingxuan and other disciples following after him.
• Zhao Qingxuan arrived to challenge Jiang Li, while Lei Shan, Qin Wudao, Huo Wushuang, and a crowd of disciples gathered to watch.
• Zhao Qingxuan discarded her spear and attacked Jiang Li with her fist, but the pressure from his punch made her instinctively defend herself and retrieve her weapon.
• Jiang Li fought Zhao Qingxuan with his bare hands, and his physical strength overwhelmed her despite both of them being at the Foundation Establishment Peak.
• Zhao Qingxuan entered her Tenfold Martial Path and discovered that Jiang Li's emperor-like pressure was fusing her scattered Martial Wills, potentially allowing her to condense a special Golden Core.

Jiang Li helped Zhao Qingxuan fuse her Tenfold Martial Path into an Imperial Dao Will, allowing her to survive the Golden Core Tribulation and form a ranked Imperial Golden Core. After Jiang Li blasted apart the tribulation with his fists, Zhao Qingxuan rejected other factions’ invitations and asked to follow him.

• Qin Wudao realized Jiang Li was guiding Zhao Qingxuan’s Martial Wills into a unified Imperial Dao Will, while the elders recognized Jiang Li’s extraordinary physical strength.
• Zhao Qingxuan began her Golden Core Tribulation, but Jiang Li stayed because the Emperor's World-Shocking Art refused to let him retreat before Heaven.
• Zhao Qingxuan fought through the tribulation lightning, and Jiang Li stepped in to destroy the final strike and disperse the thunderclouds with his punches.
• Zhao Qingxuan formed an Imperial Golden Core ranked twentieth in the Star Register, drawing astonished reactions from the disciples and elders.
• Qin Wudao and Lei Shan invited Zhao Qingxuan to join their peaks, but she knelt before Jiang Li and asked to follow him.

Jiang Li accepted Zhao Qingxuan as his follower after she pledged loyalty, prompting rumors that he planned to challenge for the Holy Son position. Back at the Human Emperor Palace, he sent Zhao Qingxuan away to consolidate her Golden Core, then discovered his Nascent Soul Sword Embryo had formed as the Myriad Desire Demon Lord reacted in disbelief.

• Zhao Qingxuan pledged herself to Jiang Li, and he accepted her as his follower.
• Qin Wudao and Lei Shan left after warning Jiang Li, while Huo Wushuang suspected he intended to compete for the Holy Son position.
• Rumors spread across the Heavenly Mystery Holy Land that Jiang Li planned to challenge the Holy Son Candidates.
• Jiang Li sent Zhao Qingxuan away to consolidate her Golden Core, and Li Xi and Murong Qing followed her.
• Jiang Li summoned and grasped his Nascent Soul Sword Embryo, prompting the Myriad Desire Demon Lord to ask how he had formed it so quickly.

Jiang Li perfected the Trouble-Quelling Art into a method that used others’ Spiritual Sense to forge a Nascent Soul Sword Embryo, then strengthened his ties to Zhao Qingxuan as he pursued the Holy Son position. As he prepared to condense a special Golden Core, his cultivation methods began competing over what kind of core he should form.

• Jiang Li used his Nascent Soul Sword Embryo to shatter Myriad Desire Demon Lord’s Divine Sense Body and absorb the fragments as Spiritual Sense nourishment.
• Li Xi gave Zhao Qingxuan Jiang Li’s body-tempering pills and helped her settle in the Human Emperor Palace, while Murong Qing explained how Zhao’s support bolstered Jiang Li’s Holy Son bid.
• Jiang Li discovered that Zhao Qingxuan’s Martial Will could swallow her Imperial Golden Core, grow stronger, and become an avatar he could control through his connection to the Emperor.
• Jiang Li reviewed the steps for condensing a special Golden Core and planned to turn his Five Great Thunder Palaces into Thunder Pools.
• Jiang Li’s cultivation methods and sword art each proposed a different special Golden Core, including a Heavenly Mandate Emperor Golden Core, a Ninefold Prison Suppression Golden Core, and a Dragon-Slaying Golden Core.

At Foundation Establishment Peak, Jiang Li considered which of his six supreme methods should shape his Golden Core before Zhang Song gave him the secret Two Aspects Art. After studying it, all six methods harmonized around yin and yang, and Jiang Li planned to use them together to forge one extraordinary Golden Core.

• Jiang Li weighed the strengths of his six cultivation methods and wondered whether they could all be incorporated into a single Golden Core.
• Zhang Song told Jiang Li that he could not condense a Thunder Punishment Golden Core because Lei Shan had already formed one, and gave him the secret Two Aspects Art instead.
• Jiang Li learned that the Two Aspects Art let two cultivation methods complement one another in forming a Golden Core, and Zhang Song said the Holy Land had entrusted it to him because of his Innocent Heart.
• Zhang Song prepared to enter seclusion to pursue the Nascent Soul realm and directed Jiang Li to seek their martial grandmaster at the Sword Tomb if needed.
• After Jiang Li studied the art, his six supreme methods gained insights into merging yin and yang, leading him to plan a single Golden Core formed from all six.

Jiang Li strengthened Emperor Flame and used its enhanced life essence to advance Li Xi’s Bodhi Ancient Tree, then helped Murong Qing overcome a cultivation bottleneck with a hug. He accepted an invitation to enter the Beast God Secret Realm, where a prompt from his Body Refinement Method urged him to confront every rival.

• Jiang Li refined the Fourth-Order Life Spirit Flame into Emperor Flame, which inherited and enhanced its ability to extract life essence from spiritual herbs.
• Jiang Li used Emperor Flame to refine herbs and feed the resulting life essence to Li Xi’s Bodhi Ancient Tree, advancing it to the second order and raising Li Xi’s cultivation.
• Gao Lan confirmed the Bodhi Ancient Tree could be ripened with life essence and advised Jiang Li to keep Life Spirit Flame’s ability secret; Li Xi admitted to herself that she liked him.
• Murong Qing asked Jiang Li to hug her, and the resulting emotional turmoil helped her cultivation technique operate and eased her bottleneck.
• Bai Hong invited Jiang Li to enter the Beast God Secret Realm, and Jiang Li accepted to pursue its Beast God inheritance and secret arts.
• The Emperor’s World-Shocking Art prompted Jiang Li to face the coming struggle in the Beast God Secret Realm, despite his wish to keep a low profile.